Quiz 1 Practice

True or False: EBP considers the experiences and judgment of the clinician.

• True

• False

What are the 4 components that make up a PICO question?

Please match the following with the Belmont Principles:

• Voluntary, informed consent

• Justice

• Minimizing risks and maximizing benefits for research

• Respect for persons

• Fair procedures and outcomes in the selection of research subjects

• Beneficence

A study that attempts to maximize precision and objectivity in testing whether an intervention reduces an undesirable behavior is being guided by what paradigm?

• postmodernism

• positivism

• interpretivism

• critical social science

Does the scenario below illustrate inductive or deductive reasoning?

A researcher wants to understand the experiences of unhoused women living in Los Angeles to develop a responsive intervention. She interviews women who are staying at a housing shelter about their needs. After interviews, she sees a pattern in how respondents are describing their experiences and needs. The researcher developed an intervention based on the themes that emerged from her data collection.

• Inductive reasoning

• Deductive reasoning

Match the study to the research design: As a school social worker, you look at existing administrative data to see if there is a relationship between students who participated in a mental health intervention and their academic performance.

• Quantitative study

• Qualitative study

• Mixed-methods study

Match the study to the research design: As a school social worker, you use existing administrative data to first see if there is a relationship between student participation in a mental health intervention and their academic outcomes. Then, you use the data to intentionally select student who saw high gains based on their participation. You conduct in-depth interviews with the students to understand what factors supported them best.

• quantitative study

• qualitative study

• mixed-methods study

Match the study to the research design: As a school social worker, you conduct in-depth interviews with students who participated in the mental health intervention to hear about their experiences, challenges, and opportunities to improve the program.

• Quantitative study

• Qualitative study

• Mixed-methods study

Match the study to their time dimension. You interview participants of the 'Positive Parenting Program' immediately after their participation. Then, you follow-up with the same participants 3 months and 6 months after the program to talk about whether they’re implementing practices, and what gets in the way of implementation.

• cohort study

• At the end of a “Positive Parenting Program” you ask participants about what they learned in the program and their feedback for improvements

• cross-sectional

• To examine the long-term impacts of an early childhood intervention, you follow children born in 2020 with similar backgrounds and characteristics over time who participated in the intervention to understand changes

• trend study

• You survey people regarding their attitudes toward parenting at three different time points to understand changes in opinions over time. Each survey has different participants.

• panel study

• You interview participants of the “Positive Parenting Program” immediately after their participation. Then, you follow-up with the same participants 3 months and 6 months after the program

Describe 1) one advantage or disadvantage to quantitative research and 2) one advantage or disadvantage to qualitative research