Non-Experimental Research
A study design in which data is collected at one point in time
What is a cross-sectional research study?
A key element in experimental designs
What is randomization?
A synthesis of research findings on a particular research question
What is a systematic literature review?
Investigation of phenomena and collection of narrative data
What is qualitative research?
The researchers do not manipulate the independent variable in this type of study
What is a characteristic of a non-experimental study?
A research study design that uses pre-test and post-test to measure the effectiveness of an intervention
What is quasi-experimental research design?
In a systematic review, the original study whose findings are the data in the review
What is a primary source or study?
This type of research has a flexible research design
What is qualitative research?
Faster wound healing rates are associated with home care compared to inpatient hospital care
What is a descriptive or correlational study?
A control condition is presumed to have no therapeutic value
What is placebo or pseudo-intervention condition?
Medline database uses a controlled vocabulary to code and index articles
What is MESH?
The type of qualitative research that seeks to obtain more information about a culture
What is ethnography?
A study that begins with a presumed cause (tobacco use) and goes forward in time to measure presumed effects (lung cancer)
What is a prospective or longitudinal study?
Study design that best answers cause and effect
What are experimental study designs?
The quantitative integration of results of multiple studies addressing the same or highly similar research question
What is meta-analysis?
When data collection yields no new information or data collection gets close to point of closure
What is data saturation?
Research studies may not be generalizable, or results may not represent the general population
What is a disadvantage of nonexperimental research studies?
A research study investigates if multivitamins are associated with weight loss. Weight loss is considered this type of variable
What is a dependent variable?
In research, a description of a study written by someone other than the original researcher
What is a secondary source?
The selection of participants through referrals from earlier participants
What is snowball sampling?