ESSENTIALS OF NURSING RESEARCH
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
●● Respect for human dignity
Answer: involves participants right to self determination(participate in
study voluntarily)
●● Full disclosure
Answer: researchers have fully disclosed participants rights, costs &
benefits of the study
●● concealment
Answer: collection of information without participants knowledge or
consent
●● deception
Answer: withholding information from participants or providing false
information
●● Justice principle from Belmont Report
Answer: -right to fair treatment
,-right to privacy
●● Procedures developed to safeguard study participants'rights
Answer: -performance of risk/benefit assessment
-implementation of informed consent procedures
-safeguard participants confidentiality
●● risk/benefit assessment
Answer: potential benefits of the study to individuals and to society are
weighed against the costs to individuals
●● process consent procedures
Answer: used in qualitative studies as consent is continually renegotiated
●● anonymity
Answer: not even researchers know participants' identities
●● certificate of confidentiality
Answer: protects researchers against forced disclosure of confidential
information through a court order
●● debriefing session
,Answer: sessions offered after data collection to provide participants
with more information or oppourtunity to air complaints
●● Vulnerable populations
Answer: -children
-mentally ill
-Severely/terminally ill
-institutionalized
-pregnant women
●● IRB(institutional review board)
Answer: highly desired external review of the ethical aspects of a study,
usually required by universities, organizations
●● types of research misconduct
Answer: -plagiarism
-fabrication of results
-falsification of data
●● abstract
Answer: synopsis of the study
●● IMRAD format
, Answer: Introduction, Methods, Research, Analysis, Discussion
●● Statistically significant findings..
Answer: have a high probability of being " real",replicable with a new
sample
●● level of significance
Answer: index of how probable it is that the findings are reliable, p<0.05
●● Four factors that contribute to making research article difficult to
read
Answer: -compactness
-jargon
-objectivity
-statistical information
●● interference
Answer: conclusion drawn from the study evidence using logical
reasoning and taking into account the methods used to generate that
evidence
●● reliability
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
●● Respect for human dignity
Answer: involves participants right to self determination(participate in
study voluntarily)
●● Full disclosure
Answer: researchers have fully disclosed participants rights, costs &
benefits of the study
●● concealment
Answer: collection of information without participants knowledge or
consent
●● deception
Answer: withholding information from participants or providing false
information
●● Justice principle from Belmont Report
Answer: -right to fair treatment
,-right to privacy
●● Procedures developed to safeguard study participants'rights
Answer: -performance of risk/benefit assessment
-implementation of informed consent procedures
-safeguard participants confidentiality
●● risk/benefit assessment
Answer: potential benefits of the study to individuals and to society are
weighed against the costs to individuals
●● process consent procedures
Answer: used in qualitative studies as consent is continually renegotiated
●● anonymity
Answer: not even researchers know participants' identities
●● certificate of confidentiality
Answer: protects researchers against forced disclosure of confidential
information through a court order
●● debriefing session
,Answer: sessions offered after data collection to provide participants
with more information or oppourtunity to air complaints
●● Vulnerable populations
Answer: -children
-mentally ill
-Severely/terminally ill
-institutionalized
-pregnant women
●● IRB(institutional review board)
Answer: highly desired external review of the ethical aspects of a study,
usually required by universities, organizations
●● types of research misconduct
Answer: -plagiarism
-fabrication of results
-falsification of data
●● abstract
Answer: synopsis of the study
●● IMRAD format
, Answer: Introduction, Methods, Research, Analysis, Discussion
●● Statistically significant findings..
Answer: have a high probability of being " real",replicable with a new
sample
●● level of significance
Answer: index of how probable it is that the findings are reliable, p<0.05
●● Four factors that contribute to making research article difficult to
read
Answer: -compactness
-jargon
-objectivity
-statistical information
●● interference
Answer: conclusion drawn from the study evidence using logical
reasoning and taking into account the methods used to generate that
evidence
●● reliability
