Research midterm

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Pregunta 1

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What are some sources of research problems?
Respuesta
  • Nursing practice
  • Researcher and peer interaction
  • Literature review
  • Theory
  • Research priorities
  • Research ideas

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
The initial and one of the most significant steps in conducting the research process is?
Respuesta
  • Defining the research variables
  • Determining the feasibility of the study
  • Identifying the research problem
  • Stating the research purpose

Pregunta 3

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The feasibility of conducting a study is determined by examining which of the following ?
Respuesta
  • Availability of subjects
  • Previous studies
  • Researchers credibility
  • Significance of research problem

Pregunta 4

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What is a nondirectional hypothesis?
Respuesta
  • Relationship that exist between variable, but hypothesis predicts nature of relationship
  • Relationship exists between variables, but hypothesis does not predict nature of relationship
  • Different variable displayed
  • Relationships do not exist

Pregunta 5

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What is directional hypothesis?
Respuesta
  • Nature (positive or negative) of interaction between two or more variables is stated
  • No nature of interaction with variable
  • Interaction between three or more variables
  • Absent variables

Pregunta 6

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Null hypothesis is:
Respuesta
  • Two or more variables
  • States difference between variables or relationships
  • States there is no difference or relationship between variables
  • States numbers and variables

Pregunta 7

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Null hypothesis is also called statistical hypothesis
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 8

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What is a research hypothesis?
Respuesta
  • States what researcher thinks is false
  • States what writer thinks
  • States what researcher thinks is true
  • Researchers knowledge

Pregunta 9

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A research hypothesis is a relationship between two or more variables
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 10

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Rates of use of healthcare facilities by ethnic minorities are higher in facilities with bilingual health care staff
Respuesta
  • Directional hypothesis
  • Simple hypothesis
  • Correlations hypothesis
  • Null hypothesis

Pregunta 11

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There is a positive relationship between nurse attitudes towards AIDS patients and number of AIDS patients for whom they have cared.
Respuesta
  • Simple hypothesis
  • Correctional hypothesis
  • Directional hypothesis
  • Null hypothesis

Pregunta 12

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There is a relationship between social distance in families and burden of caregiving for chronically ill adults
Respuesta
  • Correctional hypothesis
  • Simple hypothesis
  • Null hypothesis
  • Directional hypothesis

Pregunta 13

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There is no difference between attitudes of men and women toward caring for people with AIDS
Respuesta
  • Correctional hypothesis
  • Null hypothesis
  • Simple hypothesis
  • Directional hypothesis

Pregunta 14

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What are variables?
Respuesta
  • Qualities, properties, or characteristics of people, things, or situations that are manipulated or measured in research
  • Variables are weighed and tested
  • Variables are measured with instruments and/or intensity scales
  • Variables are multiples

Pregunta 15

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What are types of variables?
Respuesta
  • Independent variables
  • Dependent variables
  • Research variables or concepts
  • Extraneous variable
  • Demographic variables
  • Multiple variables

Pregunta 16

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Independent variable is also called treatment or experimental variable
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 17

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Do independent variables change?
Respuesta
  • Yes
  • No

Pregunta 18

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Do independent variables cause the dependent variables to change?
Respuesta
  • No
  • Yes

Pregunta 19

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The research purpose should identify the study variables and what other key aspect of the study
Respuesta
  • Design
  • Measurement tools
  • Population
  • Statistics

Pregunta 20

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The dependent variable is the outcome or response the researcher does not want to predict
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 21

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What are extraneous variables?
Respuesta
  • They can interfere with obtaining clear understanding of relational or casual dynamics in the study
  • They have blurry understanding of casual dynamics
  • A recognized variables
  • No variable

Pregunta 22

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An environmental variable is an uncontrolled variable relating to the setting
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 23

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If the variable is not recognized until the study is in process or cannot be controlled
Respuesta
  • Measured variable
  • Confounding variable
  • Demographic variables

Pregunta 24

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Examples of demographic variables
Respuesta
  • Contain sample characteristics of subjects
  • May include age, education, gender, ethnic origin, income, medical diagnosis, graphic location
  • Develop large characteristics
  • Demographic data are analyzed to develop sample characteristics

Pregunta 25

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What are operational definitions?
Respuesta
  • Translating upward to more concrete level
  • Translating backwards to more concrete level
  • Translating downward to more concrete level
  • Scrolling to more concrete level

Pregunta 26

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Moves from concept to variable to measures
Respuesta
  • Operational definition
  • Demographic variables
  • Extraneous variables
  • Confounding variable

Pregunta 27

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Abstract meaning of a variable that usually is based on theory
Respuesta
  • Operational definition
  • Conceptual definition
  • Demographic variable

Pregunta 28

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Way of defining a variable that makes it measurable or manipulable in the real world
Respuesta
  • Operational definition
  • Conceptual definition
  • Sample variable

Pregunta 29

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A researcher wanted to locate a conceptual framework to guide a particular research study would most likely to find one in which of the following sources?
Respuesta
  • A descriptive study
  • A dissertation
  • Empirical literature
  • Theoretical literature

Pregunta 30

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2 types of sources
Respuesta
  • Primary
  • Written
  • Secondary
  • Theory

Pregunta 31

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What is the primary purpose for reviewing relevant literature?
Respuesta
  • Delineate the existing knowledge base of an identified problem
  • Develop conceptual and operational definitions of variables
  • Interpret previous research findings
  • Select the research design

Pregunta 32

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Which of the following indexes would provide thee largest number of relevant nursing sources?
Respuesta
  • Medline
  • International nursing index
  • Cumulative index to nursing and allied health literature
  • Nursing studies index

Pregunta 33

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A variable is smaller or more concise than a concept
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 34

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What is theory?
Respuesta
  • Ideas and knowledge of science
  • Rational statements that presents a view
  • Helps answers question “ was my theory correct” ?
  • Based on math.
  • It does not answer a question

Pregunta 35

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A framework is smaller than a theory
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 36

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Abstracts are bigger than a theory
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 37

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A brief explanation of a theory or portions of a theory to be tested in a study
Respuesta
  • Theory
  • Sample
  • Framework
  • Focus

Pregunta 38

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A theory is abstract rather than concrete
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 39

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More comprehensive than a dictionary definition
Respuesta
  • Conceptual
  • Map
  • Middle range theory

Pregunta 40

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What does a study framework reflect?
Respuesta
  • Blueprint for the study
  • Data analysis
  • Researchers “theory” or idea about the study
  • Specific plan for data collection

Pregunta 41

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Theories are constructed by people and are tentative in nature
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 42

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Abstractly describe and name an object, idea, or phenomenon, this providing it with a separate identity or meaning
Respuesta
  • Conceptual definition
  • Concepts
  • Relational statement
  • Map or model

Pregunta 43

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More comprehensive than a dictionary definition; includes associated meanings a word may have
Respuesta
  • Concepts
  • Relational statement
  • Conceptual definition
  • Map or model

Pregunta 44

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Clarifies the type of relationship that exists between or among concepts
Respuesta
  • Concepts
  • Relational statement
  • Map
  • Model

Pregunta 45

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Graphically shows the interrelationships of the concepts and relational statements
Respuesta
  • Map or model
  • Relational statement
  • Concepts
  • Conceptual definition

Pregunta 46

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What are middle range theories?
Respuesta
  • Less abstract and narrower in scope than conceptual models
  • More broader and wider in scope
  • Emerge from review of studies to build evidence based practice related to a clinical problem
  • It is just a theory

Pregunta 47

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Which is true about theoretical frameworks used in research?
Respuesta
  • Theories are congruent with reality
  • Theories represent ultimate truth
  • Theories are constructed by people and are tentative in nature
  • Precise guidance in situations

Pregunta 48

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“ Do this so you can get a better outcome”
Respuesta
  • Prescriptive theory
  • Concepts
  • Framework
  • Abstracts

Pregunta 49

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Practice theory is not a prescriptive theory
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 50

Pregunta
What are frameworks
Respuesta
  • Frameworks explain the theory
  • Frameworks give relationships of variables
  • Results in hypothesis which is testable

Pregunta 51

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Middle-range theories are developed in some qualitative studies as outcome of study
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 52

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Transcultural nursing theory
Respuesta
  • Leiningers
  • Peplau

Pregunta 53

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Interpersonal relations
Respuesta
  • Peplau
  • Leininger

Pregunta 54

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What defines the selected group of people or elements from which data are collected for a study
Respuesta
  • Map
  • Sample
  • Population
  • Framework

Pregunta 55

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Sampling plan defines the selection process
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 56

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Members of a sample are called subjects or participants
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 57

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An entire set of individuals or elements who meet the sampling criteria
Respuesta
  • Target population
  • Accessible population
  • Elements

Pregunta 58

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The portion of the target population to which the researcher has reasonable access
Respuesta
  • Target population
  • Accessible population
  • Elements

Pregunta 59

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Individual units of a population and sample
Respuesta
  • Target population
  • Accessible population
  • Elements

Pregunta 60

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Sampling in research may be defined as
Respuesta
  • Insurance that each person has a chance of being included in the study
  • Establishment of criteria for eligibility to participate in a study
  • Identification of the population in which the researcher is interested
  • Selection of a subset of a population to represent the whole population

Pregunta 61

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As similar as possible so as to control for extraneous variables
Respuesta
  • Homogeneous sample
  • Heterogeneous sample

Pregunta 62

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Represents a broad range of values
Respuesta
  • Homogeneous sample
  • Heterogeneous sample

Pregunta 63

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Expected difference in values that occur when different subjects from same sample are examined
Respuesta
  • Random variations
  • Systematic variation

Pregunta 64

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Consequences of selecting subjects whose measurement values differ in some way from this rose of the population
Respuesta
  • Random variation
  • Systematic variation

Pregunta 65

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Percentage of subject who declined to participate in study
Respuesta
  • Refusal rate
  • Acceptance rate

Pregunta 66

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Percentage of subjects who consented to be in the study
Respuesta
  • Refusal rate
  • Acceptance rate

Pregunta 67

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RCT means randomized controlled trials
Respuesta
  • True
  • False

Pregunta 68

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The population from which the researcher selects the actual study sample
Respuesta
  • Accessible population
  • Scientific population
  • Target population
  • Theoretical population

Pregunta 69

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What is purpose sampling?
Respuesta
  • Also called judgmental or selective sampling
  • Include typical and atypical subjects
  • Based on researchers judgment
  • Is in quantitiveresearch

Pregunta 70

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What is network sampling?
Respuesta
  • Also called snowball sampling
  • Take advantage of social networks to get the sample
  • One person in the sample asks another to join the sample
  • Takes disadvantage of social networking

Pregunta 71

Pregunta
What is theoretical sampling?
Respuesta
  • Used in grounded theory research
  • Data are gathered from any individual or group that can provide relevant data for theory generation
  • The sample is saturated when the data collection is completed based on the researchers expectations
  • Diversity in the sample is encouraged
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