Design, sampling, data collection
Quantitative analysis
Key concepts, principles, terms
EBP - General knowledge
Research reports
100
This nursing database is often used to search for nursing research reports
What is CINAHL
100
Researcher Ward learns that 34.1% of the responses are above the mean. She knows that this can also be related to what term?
What is standard deviation?
100
This term describes the likelihood of an event occurring.
What is probability?
100
Researcher Visentin explores the experiences of nursing students as they navigate through their final years of school. She uses what kind of research approach?
What is qualitative research?
100
These five letters can be used to describe the major parts of a research report.
What is IMRAD?
200
We used this process in our Cookie Experiment to make both groups comparable in terms of personal characteristics
What is random assignment
200
Researcher Luzzi finds a relationship between the mean depression and exercise scores of the research subjects in her study. This relationship demonstrates what kind of relationship?
What is a positive correlation?
200
This variable stands alone and isn't changed by the other variables you are trying to measure
What is an independent variable?
200
This kind of nursing research uses the term research participant to refer to individuals who are involved in the study.
What is qualitative research?
200
This part of a research report provides a brief description of a research report.
What is an abstract?
300
Negri and Carta collaborate in a research study to determine if healing touch improves lower back pain in patients confined to bed on their med-surg unit. They will plan to use what kind of statistical analysis?
What is logistic regression?
300
Findings from a study appear that they are unlikely to have occurred by chance are considered to be this...
What is statistically significant?
300
This is the aggregate of all values that the researcher is trying to measure.
What is a population?
300
This famous nurse is known as one of the first nursing researchers.
Who was Florence Nightingale?
300
Nelson describes her research design, plan, and study procedures in this section of her research report.
What is the Methods section?
400
Instead of answer questions about how/when/why characteristics occur in real life, this research design addresses the "what" question - what are the characteristics of the population or situation being studied?
What is non-experimental research?
400
In Harris' study that examines the differences between test scores of 3 groups of nursing students who have been exposed to different experimental teaching interventions, she knows that she would not be able to use this kind of statistical test because of the number of groups.
What is a t-test?
400
Tomczak would like to ensure that questions related to physical symptoms, level of intensity, and impact on daily life should be used to assess fear of heights in her survey. She is interested in examining what kind of validity?
What is content validity?
400
Nursing research is used to address at least which of these two areas of interest?
What are persons, environment, health, and nursing?
400
In this section of her research report, Riter provides the following information: "as a result of limited information related to understanding the experiences of grief in single, older women, this study will utilize a phenomenological approach"
What is the Introduction?
500
This kind of experiment provides some of the highest levels of evidence with respect to the research evidence hierarchy.
What is a randomized control trial (RCT)
500
Ruffin's analysis demonstrates that there is a significant difference in SAT scores of students who went to high school in Waterbury and those who did in Cromwell, despite the fact that she hypothesized there would be no difference. She has just committed what kind of error in her research?
What is a Type 2 error?
500
Collins is concerned about the potential that some students took a cookie baking elective at USJ which could impact their reactions to the cookies during her Cookie Experiment. This cookie baking elective would be considered what kind of variable?
What is a confounding variable?
500
These are two of the four stages of the nursing research process.
What are defining the research question, hypothesis formation, data collection, data analysis and drawing conclusions.
500
Though not specifically labeled in many research reports, this section immediately follows the abstract.
What is the Introduction?
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