NKU NRP472 2019 February Module 3 Quiz Latest

16 Jun NKU NRP472 2019 February Module 3 Quiz Latest

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NRP472 NURSING RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE

Module 3 Quiz

Question 1

A nurse researcher studied women’s experience during the transition to menopause. Data were collected by interviewing 20 women in their 50s. The participants were also asked to maintain a daily diary for a month. Which form of triangulation was used in this study?

Data triangulation

Theory triangulation

Method triangulation

Investigator triangulation

Question 2

The maintenance of good, thorough documentation and a decision trail is especially critical during:

Member checks.

Negative case analyses.

Inquiry audits.

Thick description.

Question 3

A researcher randomized nursing home residents to a fall prevention intervention or to “usual care.” After outcome data are collected, control group members were offered the chance to receive the intervention. This control group strategy is called:

a “usual care” control group.

a wait-listed control group.

an alternative treatment control group.

an attention control group.

Question 4

The “Results” section of a quantitative research article summarizes results of the:

Statistical analyses.

Interpretation of study findings.

Measurement plan.

Study conclusions.

Question 5

A nurse researcher studied lapses in medication compliance among schizophrenic patients living in the community. In his journal article, the researcher reported that he had worked in psychiatric nursing for 15 years and had a nephew who was schizophrenic. Which quality-enhancing strategy is the researcher using?

Search for disconfirming evidence

Inquiry audit

Thick description

Researcher credibility

Question 6

A nurse researcher is studying how members of an immigrant community manage chronic health problems. The researcher spends 15 months in the field conducting interviews and making observations in the community. Which quality-enhancement strategy is described in this study?

Member checking

Reflexivity

Prolonged engagement

Audit trail maintenance

Question 7

Nurse researchers randomly assigned 50 participants to a 3-month smoking cessation intervention and 50 to be in the control group. At the end of the study, there were 40 in the intervention group and 32 in the control group. Which threat to internal validity would be especially salient in this study?

Maturation

Selection

Temporal ambiguity

Mortality

Question 8

Confidence intervals (CIs) address a key question relating to the appraisal of evidence for EBP. Which question do CIs address?

What is the cost of applying the evidence?

How precise is the estimate?

What is the magnitude of effects?

What is the quality of the evidence?

Question 9

In a study on patient’s fear of falling, a nurse researcher administered a questionnaire and asked about the participants’ educational attainment (1 = high school, 2 = some college, 3 = college degree, 4 = graduate degree). What is the level of measurement of the variable educational attainment?

Ratio

Ordinal

Nominal

Interval

Question 10

A researcher reported the age of onset of Alzheimer’s disease in a sample of residents in a memory care facility. What index of central tendency is likely to best communicate the information?

The average

The mean

The median

The mode

Question 11

Compared to true experiments, quasi-experiments are more susceptible to:

rival hypotheses about causality.

recruitment difficulties.

feasibility problems.

ethical transgressions.

Question 12

A nurse researcher tested the effectiveness of a foot massage on geriatric patients’ pain levels. One study participant, Mr. Smerud, had a pain score of 80 (on a scale from 0 to 100) before the massage and a pain score of 65 at follow up. What would a score of 15 for Mr. Smerud be called?

His score at the next follow-up

His change score

His baseline score

His targeted score

Question 13

Which is a parameter?

The percentage male and female in a sample of 5,000 patients

The average birth weight of a sample of 2,000 infants

The average age of an accessible population of 2,000 nursing home residents

The grade point average of nursing students responding to an Internet survey.

Question 14

Which question would researchers most likely ask peers to address in a peer debriefing?

Are there possible errors of interpreting the data?

Is the description sufficiently thick?

Are there coding errors?

Were interviews accurately transcribed?

Question 15

There are three well-known criteria for establishing a causal relationship, attributed to John Stuart Mill. Which is one of those criteria?

The relationship between the cause and the effect cannot be explained as being caused by a third factor.

A counterfactual must be known and controlled for in the research design.

The relationship between the cause and the effect must be deterministic.

A cause and effect must occur simultaneously.

Question 16

Which title for a journal article might be misleading?

Factors Associated with Medication Adherence in Children

The Association between Spiritual Well-being and Quality of Life in the Elderly

The Impact of Parenting Style on Adolescents’ Sexual Risk-Taking Behavior

The Relationship between Infant Birthweight and Subsequent Behavior Problems

Question 17

The quality criterion of credibility in the Lincoln and Guba’s framework for qualitative research refers to:

Confidence in the truth value of the data.

The reliability of data over time.

Applicability of the data to other groups.

Objectivity of the interpretation of the data.

Question 18

A nurse researcher tested whether sucrose (vs. sterile water) had a beneficial effect on infant pain during immunizations. Neither those administering the intervention nor the parents of the infants knew which infants received the sucrose. This strategy is an example of:

crossing over.

blinding.

randomization.

attrition.

Question 19

To test the effect of a Hatha yoga intervention on blood pressure, 100 pre-hypertensive adolescents were randomly assigned to either Hatha yoga classes or to an art class. This control group strategy is called:

an attention control group.

a “usual care” control group.

an alternative treatment control group.

a wait-listed control group.

Question 20

Which barrier do qualitative researchers face in demonstrating the trustworthiness of their studies to readers?

Page limitations imposed by journals

Absence of disconfirming evidence

Reviewers’ focus on study findings rather than methods

Readers’ lack of skills in understanding trustworthiness