Research & Evidence Based Practice
Miscellaneous
Principles of Quantitative Research
Quantitative Designs
Samples
100
Respect for persons, beneficence and justice.
What is the Belmont Report
100
A textbook is an example of this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
100
Refers to the relationship between a cause and its effect.
What is causality?
100
A design that looks at the present or is a snapshot in time.
What is cross-sectional design?
100
Includes all elements that meet the study inclusion criteria
What is target population?
200
The (I) in PICOT.
What is the Intervention of interest? or Independent variable?
200
Based on common or uncommon elements of works without concern for research methods, designs or settings; often considered subjective.
What are narrative reviews?
200
Describe, explain, or predict relationships between variables through observation.
What are Non-experimental designs?
200
A nurse is conducting a study testing a new app for monitoring blood pressure. The researcher notes that the control group has a high attrition rate threatening this type of validity.
What is internal validity?
200
This term is used when one is generalizing findings to all possible elements.
What is population?
300
The section of a research article describing study design, sample, and data collection.
What is the methods section?
300
Combines results of studies into a measurable format and statistically estimate the effects of proposed interventions. Works are similar or identical. Include published and unpublished works
What is a meta-analysis?
300
Variables that confound, or confuse, the effect of the IV on the DV (age, beliefs, geographic location, etc.)
What are extraneous variables?
300
Study findings on diabetes screening by school nurses at one school districts' elementary schools need to be interpreted with caution, since this finding has limited generalizability to other school nurses. Limited generalizability is an example of this type of validity.
What is External Validity?
300
The sampling method commonly used in qualitative research; examples include snowball sampling or network sampling.
What is Purposive Sampling
400
Certain studies may be low enough risk not to require consent from individuals.
What is exempt?
400
When reading through the results of an intervention study the nurse knows a p value less than this number means the findings were significant.
What is 0.05?
400
Type of bias where the sample studied does not correctly represent the population the researcher wants to draw conclusions about.
What is sampling bias?
400
The three essential components of Experimental Designs
What are randomization, control and manipulation?
400
Sampling subjects by selecting every kth element.
What is systematic random sampling?
500
An endeavor to change practice, based on best evidence, in a clinical setting.
What is an evidence based practice (EBP) project?
500
The structure of a study that links the theory concept to the study variables.
What is the theoretical framework?
500
An example is the clinic hand hygiene champ notices there is a 30% increase in compliance when healthcare workers were aware of being observed for their audit.
What is Hawthorne Effect?
500
The experimental design seen here:
What is Solomon 4-group?
500
This methodology uses theoretical sampling.
What is Grounded Theory?