Title: Nursing Research: Reading, Using, and Creating Research
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1:  A researcher uses a questionnaire, which is comprised of forced-choice questions. Which is an example of a forced choice question?
A: On a scale from 1 to 10, what is your current pain level?
B: What methods have you used to cope with the death of your loved one?
C: How would you describe your mood now?
D: What known allergies do you have?

2:  Which of the following scales in a common way to measure perceptual phenomena?
A: Likert Scale
B: Visual Analogue Scale
C: Semantic Differential Scale
D: Guttman Scale

3:  You want to design a survey to understand how patients in a cardiac rehabilitation program benefited from attending the program. Which of the following is an important guideline in creating a survey?
A: Perform a factor analysis on the survey.
B: Create two versions of the survey.
C: Perform a discriminant analysis on the survey
D: Test the survey on a pilot group of subjects

4:  Which of the following is an example of a form of secondary data?
A: Observation
B: Patient chart
C: Interview
D: Questionnaire

5:  What is the recommended reading level for a questionnaire?
A: 12th grade
B: 5th to 6th grade
C: 8th grade
D: 1st grade

6:  A question on a survey that asks the respondent to answer yes or no is an example of:
A: a ranked question
B: a guttman response
C: a closed question
D: a likert response

7:  When interviewing a subject in a research study, which of the following statements is true about beginning the interview?
A: Begin the interview with factual questions
B: Begin the interview with probing questions.
C: Begin the interview with detailed information about yourself.
D: Begin the interview with forced choice questions.

8:  What is the primary benefit of conducting a focus group instead of an individual interview?
A: It is less time-consuming.
B: Unanticipated topics can be explored.
C: It is less expensive.
D: Interactions amongst subjects can be observed.

9:  What is a primary drawback of using direct observation as a method of data collection?
A: The researcher is more biased.
B: Ethical issues related to informed consent.
C: Subjects may not behave normally.
D: Sampling issues related to subject recruitment.

10:  Researchers develop code books to define data before data collection actually starts. What kind of definitions can be found in a codebook?
A: Conceptual definitions of variables
B: Reliability measures of variables
C: Operational definitions of variables
D: Numerical values for variables

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