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Module 5 Quiz Nurs 5366
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Question 1
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A Family Nurse Practitioner believes that he has developed an intervention that can
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accelerate weight loss in adults with Type II diabetes when administered with a healthy
diet. He recruits 25 participants from a local church. He obtains each participant’s
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weight prior to beginning the intervention (of a walking program alternating with
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resistance training). After a month of the treatment, all of the participants are weighed
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again. Which statistical test should the researcher select to determine the effect of his
intervention on weight loss?
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Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r)
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Independent samples t-test
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Paired t-test
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Question 2
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A nurse in a cardiovascular ICU developed an intervention that she believes can reduce
patient time on the ventilator post-operatively. She recruits study participants from the
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offices of cardiovascular surgeons. She randomizes the participants to two groups, a
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treatment group and a control group. She provides a novel teaching intervention along
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with a spirometer to each participant in the treatment group one week prior to their
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surgery. Participants in the control group received customary care. After each
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participant’s surgery, the researcher records the number of hours that they are on the
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ventilator post-operatively. Which statistical test should she select to determine the
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