Title: Nursing Research: Reading, Using, and Creating Research
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1:  The foundation for choosing a design for a research study is:
A: The purpose to be achieved by the study.
B: The analysis to be performed in the study.
C: The way subjects will be recruited for the study.
D: The strengths the researcher brings to the study.

2:  Which of the following is an example of a method to eliminate a threat to the internal validity of a quantitative research study?
A: Ensure racial diversity of your sample.
B: Assign subjects randomly to treatment and control group.
C: Recruit subjects with a minimum of a high school education.
D: Use a variety of data collectors.

3:  A researcher is seeking develop a theory related to how adolescents manage depression. Which design is most appropriate?
A: Quantitative design
B: Qualitative design
C: Experimental design
D: Intervention design

4:  A researcher is seeking to test the hypothesis that lack of social support and depression are related. What type of study is this?
A: Experimental
B: Exploratory
C: Descriptive
D: Confirmatory

5:  A researcher wants to test the effectiveness of a educational program on smoking cessation. What is the independent variable in this study?
A: Smoking cessation
B: Smokers
C: Educational program
D: Use of nicotine gum

6:  All of the following are true about a dependent variable in research studies, except:
A: It is the outcome of interest in a intervention study.
B: It varies according to the independent variable in experimental studies.
C: It is a building block of a theory in qualitative research.
D: It is derived from the theoretical framework of the study.

7:  Ethnography is an example of what type of research design?
A: Descriptive
B: Correlational
C: Predictive
D: Quantitative

8:  A researcher collects quantitative data on a sample of middle-aged women over the course of a 5-year period of time. What type of design did the researcher use?
A: Longitudinal
B: Cross-sectional
C: Ethnography
D: Survey

9:  What is a limitation of cross-sectional studies?
A: Historical events may affect outcome variables.
B: They do not capture changes that occur over time.
C: They are affected by subject attrition.
D: Maturation of subjects may affect the outcome.

10:  A researcher is concerned about possible extraneous variables in the research study. What is the most important basis for the researcher's concern?
A: Findings will be biased.
B: Subjects will drop-out.
C: Confidentiality will be lost.
D: Theory will be biased.

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