WorksheetsMIDTERM RESEARCH AND BIOSTATISTIC NURR 5023
Total questions: 54
Worksheet time: 5hrs 30mins
What is the first step in the research process?
Selection of research design
A review of the relevant literature
Statement of the research problem
Delineation of the conceptual framework
Which of the following is TRUE concerning the research process?
There may be some shifting back and forth between the steps of the research process
The most important step in the research process is to identify the study hypothesis
The steps in the research process are never carried out in an orderly fashion
The steps of the research process always proceed in the same way in each study
What kind of research involves the systematic collection of numerical information and the analysis of that information using statistical procedure?
Quantitative research
Exploratory research
Qualitative research
Evaluative research
An adult is a subject in a nursing study and asks to withdraw from the study. The appropriate response for the nurse researcher will be to __________.
Allow the person to withdraw
Encourage the person to remain in the study
Cite the benefits of being part of the research study
Explain that the permission form he signed requires him to continue with the study
The plan on how a research study will be conducted is known as __________.
Hypothesis
Research design
Research process
Data collection method
The small group selected from a larger group to participate in research is known as __________.
Sample
Element
Copulative study
Sample population
The most appropriate technique used in data collection for a research of “Hand washing technique among staff nurses” is __________.
Interview
Case study
Observation
Questionnaire
Community nurses held a program on ““Love Your Heart”. The purpose of ‘this program is to determine the effectiveness of the program towards the students’ attitude who are smoking.
Questions 8 – 9, refer to the above statement
Which of the following is a dependent variable?
“Love Your Heart” program
Students’ attitude
Student smokers
Health status
Which of the following is an independent variable?
“Love Your Heart” program
Students’ attitude
Student smokers
Health status
The objective of “to determine the association between prevalence of wound and health care practice” is identified as __________.
General objective
Specific objective
Research question
Research hypothesis
Which of the following statement is an alternative hypothesis?
There is no relationship between prevalence of wound and demography
There is no relationship between prevalence of wound and socio economy
There is no relationship between prevalence of wound and lifestyle practice
There is relationship between prevalence of wound and behavior seeking care
Below are the definitions of Hypothesis EXCEPT a/an __________.
Answer for a problem
Relationship to research questions
Temporary relationship between two variables
Expected outcome based on the empirical study
The statement of “to assess undergraduate nurses’ perceptions of the psychosocial characteristics of clinical learning environment within three different models of clinical placement” is identified as __________.
General objective
Specific objective
Research question
Alternative hypothesis
The above measurement scale is identified as __________.
Nominal
Interval
Ordinal
Ratio
Rank-order measurement scale identify as __________.
Ratio
Ordinal
Interval
Nominal
Ms NT, a final year student is doing a research project. She got an approval for the study from the local research ethics committee, the Director of Nursing of the faculty and obtained consent from participants. This is considered as __________.
Data collection
Method of study
Limitation of study
Ethical consideration
Ms SK had included all students enrolled in the Bachelor of Nursing
program of a major university in Kuala Lumpur at the time of the study. This
group is called __________.
Sample
Population
Purposive sample
Convenience sample
Ms JH chose seven student nurses from two diploma in nursing programs who had completed at least one semester of clinical experience. This sample is classified as __________.
Stratified sampling
Purposive sampling
Convenience sampling
Simple random sampling
One of the activities in a “Sure Heboh” program is lucky draw. This lucky draw is an example of __________.
Stratified sampling
Purposive sampling
Convenience sampling
Simple random sampling
Ms SL involved
100 participants in her study. She chose an odd number for her sampling. This
sampling is called __________.
Cluster sampling
Stratified sampling
Systematic sampling
Convenience sampling
Ms AK is doing a research project titled “Student nurses’ experience of learning in the clinical environment”. The MOST appropriate method of data collection is through
__________.
Interview
Observation
Survey
Document analysis
The final step of the research process is to __________.
Collect data
Analyses data
Interpreted the findings
Disseminate the findings
Student A had cut and paste the statement in another empirical study
into his own study without citing the author’s name. This action is called
__________.
Invalid
Ethical
Cheating
Plagiarism
Ms DF carried out a research design using a phenomenological approach to explore the first clinical experience of students. This research design is _________.
Quantitative research
Exploratory research
Qualitative research
Evaluative research
Student RF interviewed a respondent by asking, “Ms. A, could you describe your experience being posted at the intensive care unit (ICU)?” This question is used in the following interview.
Closed
Structured
Unstructured
Semi-structured
The level of measurement can be classified as __________.
None of the above
Binomial, multinomial, normal
T-test, Z-test, Chi square, F-test
Nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio
The source of data and information in research can be classified into __________.
Financial and primary data
Historical and primary data
Primary and secondary data
Historical and secondary data
What is the purpose of grounded theory?
To generate theory from data
To develop explanatory models
To support theoretical frameworks
To find significant differences among groups of people
A
researcher investigates the effect of frequency of position change on healing
of decubitus ulcers. The study would be described as __________.
Basic research
Applied research
Descriptive research
Phenomenological research
The initial and one of the most significant steps in conducting the research process is _________.
Stating the research purpose
Defining the research variables
Identifying the research problem
Determining the feasibility of the study
A research hypothesis means it __________.
Clarifies the concepts used in the study
Defines the theoretical framework for the study
Identifies the source of the problem under study
Predicts the expected results or outcomes of the study
The statement "This study explores the experience of caregiving by adult daughters of parents with Alzheimer disease" is an example of which of the following?
Question
Objective
Simple hypothesis
Complex hypothesis
In which section of the research report might the problem statement be located?
Chapter 1: introduction
Chapter 2: literature review
Chapter 3: research design
Chapter 4: research analysis
The primary purpose for reviewing relevant literature is to __________.
Select the research design
Interpret previous research findings
Develop conceptual and operational definitions of variables
Support information on the existing knowledge based on an identified problem
Statistics
is defined as __________.
Process of analysis and interpretation of the data
Process of collecting and compiling the data collection
Art of collection, compilation, analysis, interpretation of data
Science of collection, compilation, analysis, interpretation of data
Discrete data means a person is able to __________.
Count the data
Measure the data
Present in variables in graph
Arrange in different categories
A group of third year (n = 122) from 253 pre-registration diploma of
nursing students at Lake View College were contacted for a study. The group is called a
__________.
Sample
Population
Purposive sample
Convenience sample
The most appropriate technique used in data collection for a research of “Hand hygiene technique among staff nurses” is
Interview
Case study
Observation
Questionnaire
Maternal mortality rate for a year in state X is as below:
January
5
July
7
February
3
August
5
March
8
September
8
April
3
October
8
May
5
November
5
June
8
December
8
Questions 6 – 9, refer to the list above.
The mode value is
3
5
6
8
The mean value is
3.08
4.31
6.08
9.00
The median value is
4
5
6
7
Characteristics of normally distribution data are as stated below EXCEPT __________.
skewness
Bell shape
symmetrically
mean & median in central
Measuring the central tendency is known as __________.
Analytical statistics
Inferential statistics
Categorical statistics
Descriptive statistics
JU chose seven student nurses from two baccalaureate nursing programs who had completed at least one semester of clinical experience. This sample is classified as
__________.
Stratified sampling
Purposive sampling
Convenience sampling
Simple random sampling
One of the activities in a “Sure Heboh” program is lucky draw. This lucky draw is an example of __________.
Stratified sampling
Purposive sampling
Convenience sampling
Simple random sampling
SK involved 100 participants in her study. She chose an odd number for her sampling. This sampling is called __________.
Cluster sampling
Stratified sampling
Systematic sampling
Convenience sampling
This process involves a nurse researcher who needs to analyze the data using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) for windows.
Findings
Data analysis
Data collection
Research method
RJ interviewed a respondent by asking, “Ms. A, could you describe your experience being posted at the intensive care unit (ICU)?” This question is used in the following interview.
Closed
Structured
Unstructured
Semi-structured
The following definition is most essential to obtain the desired data in a research study.
Dictionary
Theoretical
Conceptual
Operational
The appropriate test of
statistical analysis to determine the comparison of self-satisfaction on
personal appearance between female and male student nurse is __________.
T-test
Anova
Pearson R
Chi-square
Before doing the real study, a researcher needs to do a pilot study. A pilot study sample needs to calculate based on __________.
5%
10%
15%
20%
A good sample is the one in which there is no bias from
the sampling process. This is defined as __________.
Random
Precision
Accuracy
Consistency
Which of the following is NOT a probability sample?
Cluster sampling
Stratified sampling
Systematic sampling
Convenience sampling
What is the mode of the following set of scores? 4,3,5,6,4,4,5,6,4,8,3,3,4
3
4
5
6
