Nursing Research Quiz
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,Accepting the null hypothesis means you reject the B. True
research hypothesis.
A. False
B. True
Identify which of the following is a research hypothesis. C. Nursing students who practice deep breathing before an exam will have better
exam scores than students who do not practice deep breathing.
A. Do nursing students who practice deep breathing
before an exam perform better than students who do
not?
B. The purpose of this study was to determine if nursing
students who practice deep breathing before an exam
perform better than students who do not practice deep
breathing.
C. Nursing students who practice deep breathing before
an exam will have better exam scores than students who
do not practice deep breathing.
D. Does deep breathing make students less stressed?
What is the independent variable in this study based on C. Deep breathing
the following research question: What is the effect of
deep breathing on nursing student exam scores and
anxiety levels?
A. Anxiety levels
B. Exam scores
C. Deep breathing
D. Nursing students
External validity refers to which of these issues? C. The degree to which findings are generalizable to populations beyond those
studied.
A. The relationship existing between the independent and
the study outcomes.
B. The influence of a specific event on the independent
variable.
C. The degree to which findings are generalizable to
populations beyond those studied.
D. The degree to which extraneous or mediating variables
interfere with the study outcomes.
A nurse researcher is planning to write a proposal for a C. Encourage the researcher's family members to participate in the study.
research study using a quantitative design. Which of the
following would be likely to reduce control in the study?
A. Use trained data collectors.
B. Use psychometric tools with established reliability and
validity.
C. Encourage the researcher's family members to
participate in the study.
D. Standardize data collection processes.
, Which of the following study designs indicates the C. A meta-analysis
highest level of evidence?
A. A randomized controlled trial (RCT)
B. A quasi-experimental study
C. A meta-analysis
D. A case study
Which ethical principle is maintained when the subject's C. Confidentiality
identity cannot be linked, even by the researcher, with his
or her individual responses in a research study?
A. Justice
B. Beneficence
C. Confidentiality
D. Nonmalfecence
How should a nurse researcher expect a sample to differ C. A sample is a representative segment of a defined population.
from a population?
A. A sample can mean objectives or events, and a
population refers to individuals or groups.
B. A population has a narrow set of defining
characteristics, and a sample has a broad set of defining
characteristics.
C. A sample is a representative segment of a defined
population.
D. A well-designed sampling method will ensure that the
sample has a different set of characteristics from a
population.
Why would a researcher assign subjects randomly in a C. To help ensure that all groups within a study are representative of the larger
study? population.
A. To eliminate the need to establish eligibility criteria for
participants.
B. To increase the chance that the study group and
control group will be different from each other at
baseline.
C. To help ensure that all groups within a study are
representative of the larger population.
D. To help ensure that current events do not influence the
outcomes of the study.
The nurse researcher designed a study examining anxiety D. Historical
among elementary school children. If a widely publicized
murder of a child occurred in the city during the time
frame of the study, what type of threat to internal validity
would the murder represent?
A. Selection bias
B. Instrumentation
C. Maturation
D. Historical
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,Accepting the null hypothesis means you reject the B. True
research hypothesis.
A. False
B. True
Identify which of the following is a research hypothesis. C. Nursing students who practice deep breathing before an exam will have better
exam scores than students who do not practice deep breathing.
A. Do nursing students who practice deep breathing
before an exam perform better than students who do
not?
B. The purpose of this study was to determine if nursing
students who practice deep breathing before an exam
perform better than students who do not practice deep
breathing.
C. Nursing students who practice deep breathing before
an exam will have better exam scores than students who
do not practice deep breathing.
D. Does deep breathing make students less stressed?
What is the independent variable in this study based on C. Deep breathing
the following research question: What is the effect of
deep breathing on nursing student exam scores and
anxiety levels?
A. Anxiety levels
B. Exam scores
C. Deep breathing
D. Nursing students
External validity refers to which of these issues? C. The degree to which findings are generalizable to populations beyond those
studied.
A. The relationship existing between the independent and
the study outcomes.
B. The influence of a specific event on the independent
variable.
C. The degree to which findings are generalizable to
populations beyond those studied.
D. The degree to which extraneous or mediating variables
interfere with the study outcomes.
A nurse researcher is planning to write a proposal for a C. Encourage the researcher's family members to participate in the study.
research study using a quantitative design. Which of the
following would be likely to reduce control in the study?
A. Use trained data collectors.
B. Use psychometric tools with established reliability and
validity.
C. Encourage the researcher's family members to
participate in the study.
D. Standardize data collection processes.
, Which of the following study designs indicates the C. A meta-analysis
highest level of evidence?
A. A randomized controlled trial (RCT)
B. A quasi-experimental study
C. A meta-analysis
D. A case study
Which ethical principle is maintained when the subject's C. Confidentiality
identity cannot be linked, even by the researcher, with his
or her individual responses in a research study?
A. Justice
B. Beneficence
C. Confidentiality
D. Nonmalfecence
How should a nurse researcher expect a sample to differ C. A sample is a representative segment of a defined population.
from a population?
A. A sample can mean objectives or events, and a
population refers to individuals or groups.
B. A population has a narrow set of defining
characteristics, and a sample has a broad set of defining
characteristics.
C. A sample is a representative segment of a defined
population.
D. A well-designed sampling method will ensure that the
sample has a different set of characteristics from a
population.
Why would a researcher assign subjects randomly in a C. To help ensure that all groups within a study are representative of the larger
study? population.
A. To eliminate the need to establish eligibility criteria for
participants.
B. To increase the chance that the study group and
control group will be different from each other at
baseline.
C. To help ensure that all groups within a study are
representative of the larger population.
D. To help ensure that current events do not influence the
outcomes of the study.
The nurse researcher designed a study examining anxiety D. Historical
among elementary school children. If a widely publicized
murder of a child occurred in the city during the time
frame of the study, what type of threat to internal validity
would the murder represent?
A. Selection bias
B. Instrumentation
C. Maturation
D. Historical
