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:

• Minimizing risks and maximizing benefits for research

• Beneficence

• Voluntary, informed consent

• Justice

• Fair procedures and outcomes in the selection of research subjects

• Respect for persons

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.

• trend 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

• 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

• panel 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.

• 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

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