NURSING RESEARCH MSQs QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. 3. Which type of research involves three (3) independent variables and
six
(6) dependent variables?
a. Experimental research
b. Descriptive research
c. Variable analysis
d. Sociogram
2. 4. Which of the following validity's would be the most difficult to
establish?
a. Construct
b. Predictive
c. Criterion
d. Concurrent
3. In an experiment, assertive training was studied regarding its ability
to help children reduce test anxiety.
5. What was the dependent variable?
a. assertiveness
b. anxiety level
c. graduation
d. training effectiveness
4. In an experiment, assertive training was studied regarding its ability
to help children reduce test anxiety. 6. What is the independent
variable?
a. assertiveness
b. anxiety level
c. graduation
d. training effectiveness
5. A nurse who reads research articles and incorporates research
findings into nursing practice would demonstrate which of the following
research roles?
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,A. Consumer
B. Primary investigator
C. Collaborator
D. Producer
6. An example of inductive reasoning is:
A.reasoning from all chronically ill patients to a single chronically ill
patient B.reasoning from a single diabetic patient to all diabetic patients
C.using a standard nursing care plan to care for a specific patient
D.using a computerized nursing care plan to care for insulin-dependent
dia- betic patients.
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, 7. Quantitative and qualitative research approaches are particularly
useful in nursing because they:
A. are easy to implement.
B. require few resources.
C. are both process oriented.
D. balance each other by generating different types of nursing knowledge
8. Which of the following types of research involve at least some control
by the researcher to implement the study treatment?
A.Correlational
B.Descriptive
C.Quasi-experimental
D.Experimental:
9. In which type of research is there high researcher control, random
sam- pling, and laboratory setting?
A.Descriptive
B.Correlational
C.Quasiexperimental
D.Experimental:
10. What category of research is suggested by the following research
ques- tion?
"Does telephone follow-up by nurses improve patients' compliance with
their medication regimens?"
A. Applied research
B. Basic research
C.descriptive
research
D.phenomenological research:
11. A researcher investigates the effect of frequency of position change
on healing of decubitus ulcers. The study would be described as:
A. applied research
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1. 3. Which type of research involves three (3) independent variables and
six
(6) dependent variables?
a. Experimental research
b. Descriptive research
c. Variable analysis
d. Sociogram
2. 4. Which of the following validity's would be the most difficult to
establish?
a. Construct
b. Predictive
c. Criterion
d. Concurrent
3. In an experiment, assertive training was studied regarding its ability
to help children reduce test anxiety.
5. What was the dependent variable?
a. assertiveness
b. anxiety level
c. graduation
d. training effectiveness
4. In an experiment, assertive training was studied regarding its ability
to help children reduce test anxiety. 6. What is the independent
variable?
a. assertiveness
b. anxiety level
c. graduation
d. training effectiveness
5. A nurse who reads research articles and incorporates research
findings into nursing practice would demonstrate which of the following
research roles?
1/8
,A. Consumer
B. Primary investigator
C. Collaborator
D. Producer
6. An example of inductive reasoning is:
A.reasoning from all chronically ill patients to a single chronically ill
patient B.reasoning from a single diabetic patient to all diabetic patients
C.using a standard nursing care plan to care for a specific patient
D.using a computerized nursing care plan to care for insulin-dependent
dia- betic patients.
2/8
, 7. Quantitative and qualitative research approaches are particularly
useful in nursing because they:
A. are easy to implement.
B. require few resources.
C. are both process oriented.
D. balance each other by generating different types of nursing knowledge
8. Which of the following types of research involve at least some control
by the researcher to implement the study treatment?
A.Correlational
B.Descriptive
C.Quasi-experimental
D.Experimental:
9. In which type of research is there high researcher control, random
sam- pling, and laboratory setting?
A.Descriptive
B.Correlational
C.Quasiexperimental
D.Experimental:
10. What category of research is suggested by the following research
ques- tion?
"Does telephone follow-up by nurses improve patients' compliance with
their medication regimens?"
A. Applied research
B. Basic research
C.descriptive
research
D.phenomenological research:
11. A researcher investigates the effect of frequency of position change
on healing of decubitus ulcers. The study would be described as:
A. applied research
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