Research Terms
The small group selected from a larger group to participate in a study
What is sample?
This variable is the outcome or effect in cause and effect.
What is a dependent variable?
Research that is concerned with subjective or narrative data
What is qualitative research?
Acronym that can be used to formulate questions to assist with the search for evidence.
What is PICOT?
A critical appraisal of the strengths and limitations of a study. Often uses to assess the worth of the evidence.
What is a research critique?
The information collected during the course of a study.
What is data?
Researcher's expectations about relationships between study variables.
What are Hypotheses?
Studying patterns and lifeways of a defined cultural group in a holistic fashion.
What is Ethnography?
Improves practices and processes within a specific organization (i.e, hospital units).
What is Quality Improvement?
A distortion or influence that results in an error in inference. Favors one things over another.
What is bias?
The concise description of a research study located at the beginning of the article?
What is abstract?
The variable that is the cause in cause and effect
What is the independent variable?
This paradigm is most associated with qualitative research.
What is the constructivist paradigm?
The term for grading research studies related to the strength of the study.
What is level of evidence?
An index of how probable it is that findings are reliable. Symbolized as p value.
What is level of significance?
A written summary of the state of evidence on a research problem
What is a Literature Review?
The extent to which the findings can be applied to other groups and settings.
What is Generalizability?
The focus of these studies are on developing social experience-- this social and psychological phases that characterize a particular event or espisode.
What is Grounded Theory?
Meta-analysis and Metasynthesis are examples of this type of review
What is a Systematic Review?
Using multiple methods to measure an outcome, to assess whether results are consistent.
What is Triangulation?
Combines the findings of qualitative research and synthesizes them to create major themes that accurately depict the meaning of a particular experience
What is Meta-aggregation ( sometimes referred to meta-synthesis)
A researcher gave bran flakes to one group of subjects and prune juice to another to evaluate which method facilitated elimination more is an example of this type of study.
What is experimental research?
Nurses' experiences with spiritual and existential care for dying patients in a general hospital is an example of this kind of study.
What is Phenomenology?
The highest level of evidence for EBP questions.
What is a systematic review?
A conclusion drawn from the study evidence using logical reasoning.
What is an inference?