Key concepts in Research & Critiquing research articles
Ethic in Research & Research Problems, ?'s, and Hypotheses
Finding and Reviewing Research & Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks
Quantitative Research and Sampling
100
An important goal for the nursing profession in research is what?
What is Establishing a solid base of evidence for practice through disciplined research
100
A researcher's expectations about the relationships between variables in a quantitative study are generally formulated as what?
What is a Hypothesis
100
Discussions with participants after a study to explain various aspects of the study and provide a forum for questioning is called what?
What is debriefing
100
In conducting a subject search in an electronic database, you would most likely initiate the search by typing in what?
What is Topic or Keyword
100
An important function of a rigorous research design in a quantitative study is to have control over what?
What is confounding variables
200
A researcher wants to investigate the effect of a patients' body position on blood pressure. They study would most likely be of which type?
What is Quantitative
200
What is the dependent variable in the research question, "Is quality of life of nursing home residents affected by their functional ability or hearing acuity?"
What is Quality of life
200
Avoiding the collection of any indentifying information in a research study is known as what?
What is maintaining cofidentiality
200
What is the most important type of information that should be included in a literature review?
What is Findings from prior studies
200
If a researcher wanted to describe the relationship between women's age and frequency of performing breast self-examination, the study would be classified as what type?
What is Descriptive correlational
300
Research utilization is a process that begins with what?
What is A knowledge focused trigger or research finding
300
What is the independent variable in the research question Is low cognitive functioning associated with reduced instrumental activities of daily living in people with heart failure?
What is Level of Cognitive Functioning
300
Pediatric patients are known as what type of participants in a research study?
What is Vulnerable study participants
300
What is the first step in writing a review of literature?
What is Determining the question to be addressed
300
What type of sampling is the weakest in quantitative studies?
What is Convenience Sampling
400
In the following clinical question, what is the outcome: What is the effect of relaxation therapy versus biofeedback on the functional ability of patients with rheumatoid arthritis?
What is Functional Ability
400
When reviewers make recommendations about a publication are not told who the authors are this is called?
What is a blind review
400
Where is the statement of purpose normally found in a research report?
What is At the end of the introduction
400
What are the building blocks of theory?
What is concepts
400
When an observer is not concealed, the findings may be biased because of what?
What is Reactivity
500
In the following clinical question, what is the population: Do stress and depression affect dyspnea in patients with COPD?
What is Patients with COPD
500
In which section would the following sentence most likely appear: "The study sample consisted of 135 mother-infant dyads from an inner city neighborhood?"
What is The Method Section
500
"Women who jog regularly are more likely than those who do not to have amenorrhea" Is what type of hypothesis?
What is Directional Hypothesis
500
The health promotion model is best described as what type of theory?
What is Middle Range Theory
500
Why are interviews preferred over questionnaires in research?