Definitions
Requires prospective research participants to be given enough information before they decide to join a study so that they may make an informed decision.
What is informed consent?
Used to explain and describe a person’s experiences, actions and interactions, and social contexts.
What is Qualitative Research?
Trial comparing a group with an intervention and a group with a placebo.
Randomized Controlled Trial (RCTs)
Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, Autonomy, Justice, Veracity, and Fidelity
What are the Principles?
Randomly assigning different people to a group
Continuous data that represents relative amount.
What is interval data?
The goal is to understand. Generalizability is not claimed.
What is Qualitative Research?
Subjects or experimental units are grouped into blocks, with the different treatments to be tested randomly assigned to the units in each block.
What is Randomized Block Design?
This core value demonstrates an unselfish concern for the welfare of others.
What is Altruism?
Another way to refer to: Qualitative, Quantitative, Mixed-Methods
What is the Big 3?
Abstract ideas/variables that are defined in order to know how to measure them.
What is a Construct?
Experimental, quasi-experimental, descriptive, methodological, exploratory, comparative, and correlational
What is Quantitative Research?
When a researcher takes a “snapshot” of a population, studying a group of subjects at one point in time.
What is a Cross-Sectional Study?
Provides regulatory oversight at a hospital, university, or other facility conducting research.
What is the Institutional Review Boards (IRB)?
Specific observations or evidence are used to form a general conclusion or theory.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
Examines whether the study findings can be generalized to other contexts + ability to generalize the research.
What is External Validity?
Focus groups, interviews, field observation
What is Qualitative Data Collection?
Investigation of patterns of growth and change over time
What is Developmental Research?
Manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes; omitting or changing data or results such that the data is not accurately represented in the research record.
What is Falsification?
Researchers divide subjects into subgroups called strata based on characteristics that they share.
What is a Stratified Sample?
Clinical Judgement, Patient's Values and Preferences, Relevant Scientific Evidence
What is the EMB (Evidence-based Medicine)?
This type of research tries to control extraneous variables by conducting their studies in the lab
What is Quantitative Research?
Cohort Studies, Case-Control Studies, Correlational and Predictive Research, and Methodological Research.
What are Exploratory/Observational Studies?
A value that must be exercised in clinical and ethical reasoning, interactions with colleagues, and volunteer roles.
What is Prudence?
Occupational therapy practitioners view this as a vitally important contribution to the profession, the academy, and ultimately to society. Every occupational therapy practitioner should contribute independently or collaboratively to building the evidence base for occupational therapy practice and occupational therapy education.
What is Scholarship of Discovery, Integration, Application and, Teaching and Learning?