Title: Nursing Research: Reading, Using, and Creating Research
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1:  Which of the following is an example of an operational definition of depression?
A: A score of 20 or greater on the Beck's Depression Inventory.
B: A mood disturbance marked by sadness and loss of appetite.
C: A mood disturbance characterized by an imbalance of neurotransmitters.
D: A subjective feeling of sadness.

2:  A nurse decides to perform a chart review of patients in the intensive care unit over the past 6 months. She/he is interested in collected data about the incidence of hospital-acquired infection. What type of data is being collected?
A: Primary data
B: Prospective data
C: Secondary data
D: Qualitative data

3:  Which of the following is an example of nominal data?
A: Age
B: Gender
C: Pain ratings
D: Blood pressure measurement

4:  A score of 20 on the Beck's Depression Inventory is an example of:
A: Nominal data
B: Ordinal data
C: Interval data
D: Ratio data

5:  A subject answers a questionnaire based on a desire to be socially desirable. This is an example of:
A: Continuous data
B: Systematic error
C: Categorical data
D: Random error

6:  All of the following are ways to reduce measurement error, except:
A: Calibrate physical instruments
B: Use an instrument with high reliability
C: Increase the sample size
D: Use an instrument with high validity

7:  An instrument is said to have good internal reliability when:
A: The coefficient alpha is .7 or greater.
B: The test-retest reliability is .7 or greater.
C: The interrater reliability is .7 or greater.
D: The p value is less than .05.

8:  A researcher wants to establish reliability of an instrument. The instrument is administered to a sample of subjects and then given again a week later. The scores from week 1 and week 2 are correlated. What type of reliability is the researcher measuring?
A: Stability within an instrument
B: Stability between raters
C: Stability over time
D: Stability among individuals

9:  A researcher performs a factor analysis on a instrument, which will be used in a study. What type of validity will this establish?
A: Content validity
B: Concurrent validity
C: Discriminant validity
D: Construct validity

10:  In a qualitative study, the researcher wants to ensure that the results accurately represent the underlying meaning of the data and uses triangulation to increase:
A: the credibility of the data
B: the reliability of the data
C: the dependability of the data
D: the feasibility of the data

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