Exam 19: Critiquing Quantitative Research

This statement was included in a research report: "A positive correlation was found between the variables of self-reported sleep adequacy and performance on the driving simulator (r = 0.21)although the correlation did not reach statistical significance." A research consumer should evaluate this to mean what?

A nurse researcher is critically appraising a research report and asks the question "What provision is made for maintaining accuracy of the instrument and its use,if any?" Which data-collection methods and procedures would this question evaluate?

A nurse researcher is critically appraising a research report and asks the question "Is a rationale given for the selection of a particular instrument or method?" Which data collection methods and procedures would this question evaluate?

Under which heading of a research report are the threats to a study's internal and external validity usually presented?

In evaluating quantitative research,a researcher can expect to review the report's segments in which order? 1)Methods 2)Introduction 3)Literature review 4)Discussion 5)Results

In their study entitled "Self-Efficiency of Staff Nurses for Health Promotion Counselling of Patients at Risk for Stroke," Mayer et al.used a quasi-experimental design.What critical design criteria were met by the researchers?

A study includes this statement: "The fact that the inventory [instrument] was administered verbally introduced a potential bias of social desirability." This is indicative of what?

This statement was included in a study's abstract: "This research was an exploratory descriptive investigation of the pregnancy experiences of a multiethnic group of pregnant adolescents." What is this indicative of?

A nurse researcher is critically appraising a research report and asks the question "What sources of bias are possible with use of records or existing data sets?" The data collection method(s)and procedure(s)that this question evaluates is what?

Which critical appraisal question would evaluate the research question and hypothesis of a research report?

Evaluating a research report for issues of scientific merit includes which factors?

What would make a study researching the levels of depression occurring in blind and sighted adolescents nonexperimental versus experimental in design?

In evaluating a report of a quantitative research study what is considered an issue related to style?

The critical appraisal question that would most accurately evaluate the research question and hypothesis of a research report is what?

A study abstract includes the following statement: "There was a negative relationship between infants with difficult behavioural styles and maternal involvement." The most accurate interpretation of the statement is what?

What is indicated in this abstract of a study report? "This research was an exploratory descriptive investigation of the pregnancy experiences of a multiethnic group of pregnant adolescents."

Why would a study involving continuous handrail support,oxygen uptake,and heart rate in women during submaximal step treadmill exercise be quasiexperimental in design versus experimental?

What should be addressed in both the problem statement and the purpose of a quantitative research study report?

How could the sample selection procedures used in a research study investigating the levels of depression occurring in blind and sighted adolescents make the sample of blind adolescents more homogeneous?

Where in a report of a quantitative research study would you expect the gaps or conflicts about the studied phenomenon to be identified?