Ethically Thinking
What is the Question?
Variably Speaking
Designing Women
Margin of Error
100
The main focus of ethics in research.
What is the protection of human subjects?
100
FINER
What is the acronymn for a good research question?
100
This is the predictor variable if studying the effect of high fat diet on the development of coronary artery disease.
What is a high fat diet?
100
A longitudinal study conducted for 20+ years that identified risks factors for cardiovascular disease.
What is the Framingham Study?
100
A mathematical way that an investigator makes an estimate of the number of participants needed for a study.
What is sample size planning?
200
Beneficience
What is benefits must outweigh risks - a principle of ethics.
200
Relevant
What does the "R" in FINER stand for?
200
The patients who attend a health fair sponsored by a clinic.
What is an example of a convenience sample?
200
The type of study in which an investigator asks people diagnosed with mesothelioma about exposure to toxins in their work place environment in the prior 20 years.
What is retropsective cohort study?
200
The chance that an investigator concludes in a sample population after conducting a study that there is no association between an exposure and an outcome when there really is one in the target population.
What is beta or a Type 2 error.
300
Coercing college students to participate in a psychology research study is a violation of this ethical principle.
What is justice?
300
The specific prediction of what you expect to happen in a research study.
What is the Research Hypothesis?
300
These variables provide the most information in a research study.
What are continuous variables?
300
The two major types of research studies.
What are experimental and observational?
300
The magnitude or size of the association that an investigator expects to find in a research study.
What is the effect size?
400
The 3 core principles of ethics.
What are respect for persons, beneficience and justice?
400
Study sample, independent and dependent variables.
What are key components of a research question?
400
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What is an example of a Likert scale - ordinal categorical variable?
400
The type of study used to study the impact of exposures on rare diseases.
What is a retrospective case-control study?
400
Increasing the sample size results in increasing this aspect of a study.
What is Power?
500
This report identified the basic principles for ethical research.
What is the Belmont Report?
500
Statements that give more details about how the Research Question will be addressed in the research study.
What are the Specific Aims?
500
A factor that has an impact on both the independent and dependent variable.
What is a confounding variable?
500
A study where participants may pick a number out of a hat and are then assigned to either a new treatment or standard treatment (or placebo).
What is a randomized clinical trial?
500
Margin of error or variability around a parameter is called this in research.
What is the confidence interval?
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