Clinical research methods

What type of data is collected by researchers themselves directly?

• Primary data

• Secondary data

One weakness of primary data is...

• Can't check the validity of the data

• It can be time consuming

• There are many ethical issues

• It lacks scientific status

If a researcher wanted to monitor changes in symptoms in a group of patients over time, this would be an example of...

• A meta-analysis

• A cross sectional study

• Longitudinal research

• Thematic analysis

A weakness of using longitudinal research is that...

• People may drop out

• It's not objective

• Findings could become outdates

A type of research design in which you collect data from many different individuals at a single point in time...

• Lab experiment

• Case study

• Cross sectional study

A weakness of cross-sectional studies is that...

• Individual differences can influence results

• They are more time-consuming than other study designs

• They are not scientific

• They can only show a correlation and not causation

This involves taking samples from different cultural groups to draw comparisons...

Cross cultural research is good because...

• It helps in understanding the role of culture in reliability and validity of diagnosis

• It can reduce ethnocentrism in psychological studies

• It is quick and easy to conduct

• It reduces prejudice

What is a meta-analysis?

Explain one strength and one weakness of a meta analysis