Study Components
Basic Statistics
Research Designs
Answering Clinical ?s
Terminology
100
The section of the article which lays the foundation for the study
What is the introduction
100
Mean, median, mode
What are measures of central tendency?
100
Designs that include random assignment, a control group, and manipulation of an Independent variable.
What is a true experimental design?
100
Text books, review articles
What are secondary sources of data?
100
The level of significance
What is "p" or alpha?
200
The section of the paper that provides an overview of the entire article
What is the abstract?
200
Range, standard deviation
What are measures of variability?
200
Designs that have either randomization or comparison groups but not both?
What are quasi-experimental designs?
200
Clinical Experience, patient choice, best evidence and context of practice
What are information sources in evidence-based practices?
200
The researcher and subjects are unaware of group assignment?
What is a double-blind study?
300
The researcher's hunch about the outcome of a study.
What is the research hypothesis
300
A measure of dispersion from the mean.
What is the standard deviation?
300
R O1 X 02 01 02
What is a randomized pretest, posttest control group design?
300
A place to look for meta-analyses and systematic reviews.
What is Cochrane Collaboration?
300
Outcome variable
What is the dependent variable?
400
This section details the procedures followed by each subject.
What is the methods?
400
Nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio
What are levels of measurement?
400
01 X 02
What is a repeated measures design? (…or What is a pre-post design.)
400
Descriptive studies are in the middle and randomized controlled trials are near the top.
What is the hierarchy of evidence?
400
Factor other than the independent variable that can influence the dependent variable.
What are confounding variables?
500
Part of the paper where the results are compared to related research.
What is the discussion section?
500
The critical value used to determine the level of significance of test results? (Set at the beginning of a study.)
What is the alpha level?
500
01 X 02 ----------- 01 02
What is a quasi-experimental design or pretest/posttest non-equivalent comparsion group design?
500
Describes patient, intervention, comparison, outcome and is developed to answer a clinical question.
What is a PICO question?
500
Rejecting the null hypothesis when it's true
What is a Type I error?
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