Sampling Methods
Most basic probability sampling method that involves selection of participants from the sampling frame for a study.
What is Stratified random sampling?
The freedom and ability to conduct one’s life according to personal decisions, without external controls.
What is Autonomy?
Concept or broad problem area, such as self-care, provides the basis for generating numerous research problems.
What is Research topic?
Formal, objective, rigorous, systematic process for generating information about the world from numerical data that describes, tests relationships, and examines cause-and-effect interactions among variables.
What is Quantitative research?
The strength and credibility of a qualitative study produced by implementing appropriate study methods.
What is Rigor?
List of the characteristics essential for membership in the target population.
What is Convenience sampling?
Potential study participants understand the information provided to them.
What is Comprehension?
Area of concern or gap in nursing knowledge that requires research.
What is Research problem?
Type of quantitative research that involves the systematic investigation of associations between or among variables.
What is Correlational research?
Study of cultures based on anthropology.
What is Ethnographic research?
Probability sampling method in which the sampling frame includes a list of all states, cities, institutions, or organizations that could be in a study; a randomized sample of locations is drawn from this list and participants are obtained from the selected locations.
What is Cluster sampling?
One person threatens another with harm or offers an excessive reward to obtain compliance.
What is Coercion?
Clear, concise statement of the specific goal or focus of a study that is generated from the research problem.
What is Research purpose?
Type of quantitative research that involves the exploration of phenomena in real-life situations.
What is Descriptive research?
Studies focused on the lived experience.
What is Phenomenological research?
Snowball technique that takes advantage of social groups and the fact that friends tend to hold characteristics in common; participants meeting sample criteria are asked to assist in locating others with similar characteristics.
What is Simple random sampling?
Potential participant receives information about a study, agrees to participate, and signs a document to that effect.
What is Informed Consent?
Formal statement of the expected relationship or outcome from studying variables in a specified population.
What is Hypothesis?
Type of quantitative research that is conducted to examine causal relationships or to determine the effect of an independent variable on the dependent variable, but lacks the control of an experimental study.
What is Quasi-experimental research?
Research based on a pragmatic philosophy and focused on increasing understanding or finding a solution.
What is Exploratory-descriptive qualitative research?
Process of selecting a group of people, events, behaviors, or other elements that are representative of the population being studied.
What is Quota sampling?
Respect for persons, beneficence, and justice.
What are the three main ethical principles from the Belmont Report?
Clear interrogative statement developed to direct a study, such as exploration of concepts in qualitative studies or determination of differences among groups in quantitative studies.
What is Research question?
Full control over management of the setting, selection of study participants, and/or the implementation of the intervention.
What is Experimental research?
Qualitative method that describes social processes and proposes a framework of related concepts.
What is Grounded theory research?