Numbers Talk
This type of research examine relationships between or among two or more variables.
What is correlational research?
Participants, problem, or population; intervention; comparison; outcomes
What is a PICO question?
A self-report form designed to elicit information through written, verbal, or electronic responses of the study participant.
What is a survey or questionnaire?
The probability level at which the results of statistical analysis are judged to indicate a difference between the groups.
What is statistical significance?
Involves selecting a group of people, events, objects, or other elements with which to conduct a study.
What is sampling (or sample)?
This term refers to the group that is not exposed to the intervention.
What is a control group?
A set of competencies to promote quality and safety; one of the competencies is EBP.
What are QSEN competencies?
Verbal communication between the researcher and the study participant, during which information is provided to the researcher.
What is an interview?
A conclusion or judgment based on evidence.
What is inference?
The individual units of the population and sample.
What are elements?
This type of research provides a picture of a situation as it naturally happens using numbers.
What is descriptive research?
The electronic database covering the English-language journal literature for nursing and allied health.
What is CINAHL?
The process of assigning numbers or values to concepts, objects, events, or situations using a set of rules.
What is measurement?
The application of information that has been acquired from a specific instance to a general situation.
What is generalization?
The researcher consciously selects certain participants, elements, events, or incidents to include in the study.
What is purposive or purposeful sampling?
This research design facilitates the examination of causality in situations in which complete control is not possible.
What is quasi-experimental research?
This review of quantitative studies statistically combines the results from these studies into a single quantitative analysis.
What are meta-analyses?
This term refers to accuracy and the extent to which the results measure what they are supposed to measure.
What is validity?
Mode, median, and mean.
What are measures of central tendency?
Characteristics that the study participant or element must possess to be part of the target population.
What is inclusion sampling criteria?
This type of experimental research randomly assigns participants into an experimental group or a control group.
What is a randomized control trial?
Appraisal of quality research using a structured, comprehensive synthesis of the research literature to determine the best research evidence available.
What is a systematic review?
This term refers to consistency and the likelihood the results can be replicated under the same conditions.
What is reliability?
Range, variance, standard deviation, and confidence interval.
What are measures of dispersion?
Participants are included in the study merely because they happen to be in the right place at the right time.
What is convenience sampling?