What is the name of the code that resulted in the requirement of voluntary consent by research participants?
100
Survey types
What are mail, email, web site, telephone
100
levels of measurement (in order)
What are nominal
ordinal
interval
ration
100
protects human subjects
What is the IRB
200
Pyramid of evidence
How are research articles categorized into bundles of evidence?
200
Plagiarism
What is the act of fraud by the researcher to take credit for something not their own?
200
Survey Designs
What are descriptive & analytical?
200
Parametric Data
What are interval/ratio data with normal or near normal distribution
200
levels of evidence
What are:1. controlled & randomized
2. controlled but not randomized
3. Well designed cohort or case-controlled analytic study
4. multiple time series
5. expert opinion
300
Literature search
What is done to present a clear & concise reason for doing your study?
300
fabricating data
What is overstating the number of participants or falsifying participant information to make results look better
300
Descriptive Design types
What are cross-sectional
longitudinal
group comparisons
300
Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient
What is the preferred test among 2 variables measured at interval or ratio levels
300
measures of central tendency
What is mean
media
mode
geometric mean
400
PICO
What is problem, intervention, comparison, outcome?
400
Vulnerable group(s)
What are children, elderly, prisoners, pregnant women, fetuses, embroys?
400
Analytical Designs
What are cross-sectional, case controlled, prospective approaches
400
causal link results in a relationship = relationship means causality (true or False)
What is false
400
meta-analysis
What is a way to summarize the literature & translate results
500
The 8 steps in research literature review
What is 1. reading background info
2. gathering the tools
3. listing key words
4. checking preliminary sources
5. compute search
6. determine what to read
7. determine level of evidence
8. rating quality of evidence
500
Informed consent includes all 8 issues
What is 1. fair explanation of the research efort
2. description of any reasonable discomfort or risks
3. description of any potential benefits
4. participant given information re: any alternative treatment/procedures that may be advantageous
5.confidentiality explained
6. > Minimal risk anticipated participant should have included a compensation &/or medical treatment
7. Given contact information for questions/problems
8. Participant is free to withdraw from project without penalty
500
Self-report bias concerns
What are: recall
response order
response set bias
response bias
500
Explains or predicts as much of the variance in the value of the dependent variable as possible
What is regression analysis
500
ANOVA
What is one of the most powerful methods to compare the means of 2 or more groups