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NUR 321 Health Related Research
Assignment : Chapters 6/7
1. The power of traditional theories lies in their ability to:
A) provide guidance on how to test hypotheses statistically.
B) minimize the number of words required to explain phenomena, eliminating semantic problems.
C) prove that relationships exist among the phenomena studied.
D) articulate and explain the nature of relationships among phenomena.
2. What are the basic building blocks of a theory?
A) Propositions
B) Relationships
C) Concepts
D) Hypotheses
3. Theories differ in their level of generality and abstraction. What term is used to designate a theory that attempts to explain specific phenomena, such as stress, adaptation, and unpleasant symptoms?
A) Descriptive theory
B) Grand theory
C) Middle-range theory
D) Reinforcement theory
4. Which statement is true?
A) All nursing studies are based on a theory or conceptual model.
B) All nursing studies have a framework.
C) Nursing intervention studies do not require a conceptual model or theory.
D) Grand theories are a greater source of inspiration to researchers than middle-range theories.
5. Which middle-range theory developed by a nurse focuses on a person's inability to understand the meaning of illness-related events?
A) Mishel's Uncertainty in Illness Theory
B) Beck's Theory of Postpartum Depression
C) Pender's Health Promotion Model
D) Kolcaba's Comfort Theory
6. Qualitative researchers have varying opinions about reviewing the literature before undertaking a new study. Researchers often collect their data before doing a thorough literature review in which qualitative research tradition?
A) Phenomenology
B) Grounded theory
C) Ethnography
D) Naturalism
7. What is the most important type of information to include in a literature review?
A) Clinical anecdotes
B) Opinions from experts
C) Case reports from relevant clinical settings
D) Findings from prior studies
8. For a research literature review, what is a primary source?
A) A description of a study written by the researchers who did the study
B) A summary of a study written by someone other than the researchers who conducted it
C) Any reference focused primarily on the topic of interest
D) Sources such as case reports, editorials, or anecdotes
9. What is the first step in conducting a literature review?
A) Identifying the question to be addressed
B) Selecting the bibliographic database to use
C) Specifying the keywords to use in the search
D) Extracting information from sources
10. With regard to a search for quantitative studies on a research question in a bibliographic database, which statement is most accurate?
A) The best place to begin a search is to use a search engine such as Yahoo or Bing.
B) The primary keyword to start the search typically would be the population of interest.
C) The primary keywords to start the search typically would be the independent and dependent variables.
D) Subject searches and text word searches yield the same results.
11. Which statement is true?
A) A search for brain tumor and "brain tumor" in a bibliographic database would likely yield different results.
B) A search for brain tumor would yield the same results in any bibliographic database.
C) A search for brain OR tumor would yield fewer results than brain AND tumor.
D) A search for brain tumor, because there are two words, would turn off the mapping feature in most databases
12. The electronic database that focuses on the nursing and allied health literature is:
A) CINAHL.
B) EMBASE.
C) Web of Knowledge.
D) MEDLINE.
13. In the following CINAHL citation, to what does the "6" refer? "Nursing Research, Nov/Dec 2021; 70 (6): 406-411."
A) The journal volume
B) A journal issue in a given year
C) The month of issue
D) A page number
14. Which statement is true?
A) The MEDLINE database can only be accessed through a subscription with a commercial vendor.
B) PubMed provides access to MEDLINE free of charge to Internet users.
C) PubMed does not allow users to find "Similar articles" for a previously identified record in MEDLINE.
D) MEDLINE entries are translated into more than 20 languages.
15. Which of the following statements about open-access journal articles is true?
A) They can be downloaded for free over the Internet.
B) They are available for free to users from institutions that have paid a subscription fee.
C) They can be retrieved only by using the resource called Research Gate.
D) They are called "open" because they have not been peer-reviewed.
16. Which sentence is appropriately worded for a research review?
A) Five recent studies have proved that men are less well able to cope with the loss of a spouse than women.
B) The HIV epidemic has been the cause of considerable anxiety in the gay community.
C) Research has consistently found that infants' sleeping position is related to the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.
D) Nurses and physicians struggle with the decision about whether to work in environments where abortion services are offered.
17. Which of the following statements about using theory in quantitative studies is true?
A) Theory testing relies on inductive processes.
B) Intervention studies do not involve testing hypotheses deduced from a theory.
C) Fitting a research question to a theory after the fact is often a productive approach.
D) Theories are often not tested directly in a study but rather are used as an organizing structure.
18. Differentiate between the ancestry approach and descendance approach when searching the literature?
19. What happens when you insert quotation marks around a phrase or two terms such as brain tumor?
20. What happens when you include the word AND, OR, and NOT when using the search terms as brain and/or/not tumor?