Research Trivia
Evidence Based Practice
Qualitative Research
Quantitative Research
Research Reports/Critiques
100
A world view, a general perspective on the complexities of the real world.
What is a paradigm?
100
Use of research findings in a practical application.
What is a What is research utilization (RU)?
100
Subjects in a qualitative study are called....
What is a respondent?
100
The behavior, characteristic or outcome the researcher is interested in understanding, explaining, predicting, or affecting
What is dependent (outcome) variable?
100
Brief descriptoin of the study placed at the beginning of a reserch article.
What is abstract?
200
Evidence rooted in objective reality and gathered directly or indirectly through the senses rather than through personal beliefs or hunches.
What is empirical evidence?
200
A rational approach needed to provide the best possible care to the most people, with the most cost-effective use of resources.
What is a Evidence Based Practice (EBP) ?
200
Abstractions (pain, spirituality, resilience) of particular aspects of human behavior and characteristics are called...
What is phenomena?
200
The relationship that occurs when the independent variable causes or affects the dependent variable.
What is cause-and-effect (causal) relationship?
200
A procedure for testing resarchers' hypotheses and estimating the probability that the results are right.
What is a statistical test?
300
Understanding the human experience as it is lived.
What is qualitative research?
300
Opinions of authorities, expert committees (Level VII)
What is the lowest level of evidence hierarchy?
300
Research method that seeks to describe and understand key social psychological and structural processes that occur in a social setting.
What is grounded theory?
300
Definition of how concepts (variables) will be observed and measured.
What is operational definition?
300
A careful and objective appraisal of a study's strengths and limitations.
What is a research critique?
400
Research that focuses on findig solutions to existing problems.
What is applied research?
400
Research evidence from multiple quantitative research studies on a topic and provides an objective method of integrating a body of findings.
What is meta-analysis?
400
Qualitative research method that focuses on the lived experiences of humans.
What is phenomenology?
400
Pieces of information obtained and recorded in a study.
What is data?
400
An influence that produces a distortion in the study results.
What is bias?
500
The underpinnings of specific natural phenomena- often to explain what caused them.
What is theories?
500
A five-component scheme for formulating EBP questions.
What is PICOT P- population I- intervention or issue C- comparison of interest O- outcome T- time
500
Redundancy of information in qualitative research is called...
What is saturation?
500
Research that introduces and intervention and treatment.
What is experimental research?
500
The extent to which the findings of a quantitative study can be applied to other groups and settings.
What is generalizability
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