Nursing Research

A reliability coefficient of 0.6 :

Validity based on whether the instrument looks as though it is measuring the appropriate construct is known as:

The instrument’s ability to correctly identify non-cases, that is, to screen out those without the condition, is known as the sensitivity of the instrument.

Which of the following types of self reporting involve the use of a discussion moderator?

Which of the following best describes a scenario in which sample members are hand-picked by a researcher to achieve certain goals of the study

Which of the qualitative traditions can involve a sample size as large as 50 participants?

The number of study participants in the final sample is known as the study group.

What offers an explanation not only of the relationship between variables but also of the nature of the relationship?

You are learning about central concepts in conceptual models of nursing. Of the following, which would you know is a central concept in a conceptual model of nursing?

You are a researcher doing theory-testing research. What is one of your goals?

The nurse researcher has designed a study where the researcher will simultaneously manipulate two independent variables. What is the design of the study?

A nurse researcher is conducting a quasi-experimental study. What is this study especially susceptible to?

What is a detailed description of powerful statistical control mechanisms?

A nursing student is participating in a research study that uses observational methods to explore universal behavioural structures. What tradition is this study based on?

A nurse is reading a research report. The study that is the subject of the report focuses on the environment's influence on human behaviour. What type of study is it?

A new trend in nursing is to design research studies with an ideologic perspective. What is a type of research with an ideologic perspective?

When a study is based on the realities and viewpoints of those under study, what study design is it?

When planning a qualitative research study, advance planning is important in some areas. What is one area where advance planning is important?

When a clinical trial is necessary, what phase of the trial requires an experimental design?

A nurse researcher knows that the integration of qualitative and quantitative data can be used to address research goals that the different theories alone cannot address. What is one of these applications?

You are a researcher involved in an intensive investigation. You will be collecting data over an extended period of time. What type of study are you involved in?

What does probability sampling allow the researcher to do that non-probablity sampling does not?

Sometimes vignettes, or brief descriptions of situations, are given to subjects and they are asked to respond. What can vignettes easily be incorporated into?

The nursing instructor is discussing Q sorts with her students. What statement is true about Q sorts?

You are designing a research study that will collect data on vital capacity. What type of data will you be gathering?

A researcher is conducting a study of a new mother's perceptions of her infant's personality from birth to 4 months of age. To do this, the researcher is using a series of scales with bipolar adjectives along which respondents rate their reactions toward phenomena. What is this technique?

You have designed a study with multiple psychological variables. Which of the following traits would be a good candidate for a test–retest reliability assessment?

As a quantitative researcher, which of the following qualities would be an aspect of reliability you are interested in?

You are graphing test scores and find that the bulk of the scores occurred at the upper end of the distribution. You would know the distribution could be described as which of the following?

You are critiquing a research study of four groups. You would expect the researcher to use a statistical procedure that determines whether a significant difference exists between four group means on a dependent variable measured on an interval scale. What is this statistical procedure?

You are at the stage in your study where you are going to use test statistics. The steps involved in using test statistics include: (1) Comparing the test statistic to a tabled value; (2) determining the degrees of freedom; (3) determining the appropriate statistic to be used; (4) computing a test statistic; and (5) selecting a level of significance. In what order do you perform these steps?

When is an analysis of variance used in a research study?

A research study is attempting to predict success in nursing school based on 10 characteristics (e.g., age, marital status, or number of children). You would expect them to use which analysis?

The analysis style that best characterizes ethnographic studies would be described as:

As a researcher you are using Diekelmann's seven-stage process of hermeneutic analysis. When applying Diekelmann's process to your study you must identify what?

The phenomenologists all had slightly different beliefs and practices about the theories they espoused. Which phenomenologist specifically considered member checking inappropriate?

Qualitative researchers make sense of their data in different ways. Which researcher encourages gleaning thematic descriptions from artistic sources?

You are writing a critique of an integrative review, and you know that an issue that is important to evaluate is which of the following?

The researchers are using an editing style of qualitative analysis. When organizing their data, these researchers will what?

You are working with your data and are now further developing your theory in such a way that you are exploring its applicability to other settings or groups. You are in the process of what?