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Why is volunteer sampling not a preferred sampling approach?
Used when researchers need to have participants come forward and identify themselves. May not provide the most information-rich sources.
Qualitative Nursing Research has a sampling plan.
True or False
True
Rationale: A qualitative sampling plan describes how many observations, interviews, focus-group discussions or cases are needed to ensure that the findings will contribute rich data. In quantitative studies, the sampling plan, including sample size, is determined in detail in beforehand but qualitative research projects start with a broadly defined sampling plan. Sample deliberately, not at random.
Analytic generalization occurs when researchers strive to generalize from particulars to a broader conceptualizations and theories.
True or False
True
Rationale: Analytic generalization occurs when researchers strive to generalize from particulars to a broader conceptualizations and theories.
Qualitative researchers do not always fully describe their method of identifying, recruiting, and selecting participants.
True or False
True
Only grounded theory researchers write analytic memos that document researchers’ ideas about their analyses. These memos should be restricted to a few sentences.
True or False
False
Rationale: Grounded theory (and other) researchers write analytic memos that document researchers’ ideas about their analyses (e.g., how some categories are interrelated). These memos can vary in length from a sentence to multiple pages
Exposure to the phenomenon is an eligibility criterion—the group of interest comprises people with that exposure. If the researcher then recruits any person with the desired experience, the sample is
a. Convenient
b. Purposeful
c. Snowball
d. None of the above
Convenient
Rationale: However, exposure to the phenomenon is an eligibility criterion—the group of interest comprises people with that exposure. If the researcher then recruits any person with the desired experience, the sample is selected by convenience, not purposively.
What is the primary method of collecting qualitative data?
a. Survey
b. Interviewing
c. Observation
Interviewing
Rationale: Gaining Trust: Qualitative researchers must gain and maintain a high level of trust with participants and strive to achieve empathic neutrality.
Reflexivity: refers to researchers’ awareness of themselves as part of the data they are collecting. Researchers need to be conscious of the part they play in their own study and reflect on how their own experiences can affect the data they obtain.
Who guides the discussion according to a written set of questions or topics to be covered, as in a semi-structured interview?
Interviewer (or moderator)
What is the suggested optimal group size for focus groups?
6-12
Rationale: Several writers have suggested that the optimal group size for focus groups is 6 to 12 people, but some have advised even smaller groups when the topic is emotionally charged or sensitive.
What type of observation is this?
Unstructured
Rationale: Unstructured observational data are most often gathered in field settings through participant observation
You are studying patient satisfaction with nursing care, you sample only those patients whose responses to questions upon discharge expressed a complaint about nursing care. Which type of sampling is this.
a. Convenient
b. Criterion
c. Snowball
d. None of the above
Criterion
Rationale: Criterion sampling has the potential for identifying and understanding cases that are fertile with experiential information on the phenomenon of interest.
What are logs?
Logs of daily events and field notes are the major methods of recording unstructured observational data. Field notes are both descriptive and reflective.
What is the guiding principle to determine sample size?
Data Saturation
What is a big net approach?
Mingling with and having conversations with as many members of the culture under study as possible.
What is the key principle that guides phenomenological sampling?
All participants should have experienced that phenomenon and should be able to article what that experience was like.