Assessment Questions Flashcards
A methodology in research is …
A set of principles that directs research
Case control studies are a type of … Study?
Observational
Null hypothesis testing is…?
Where a statement is made about their being no difference between groups
In quantitative research terms, an aim is …
The overall/broad statement of what you intend to do
The ‘study sample’ is…
Patients drawn from the study population
The main reason for using randomisation to allocate treatments in a controlled trial is…
Prevent certain types of bias
A method of allocation least likely to achieve balance of important patient characteristics between groups is to use…
Simple randomisation
Reliability addresses whether…
Repeated measures or assessment provide a consistent result given the same initial circumstances
The main outcome for a study is called the …
Primary outcome
Validity in a study means
The measurement tool measures what it intended to measure
What are the 6 threats to internal validity of a trial?
Maturation History Instrumentation Testing Mortality Selection bias
The Hawthorne effect is …
A participants response to being in a study
A type 2 error is…
A false negative result
Statistics that produce P values are called …
Inferential statistics
Baseline data is…
The data that is collected before the intervention but after the recruitment
Which level of measurement has a fixed zero?
Ratio
Qualitative research is useful when…
Little is known about a subject or problem
Samples in qualitative studies are usually:
Small
Qualitative researchers believe that …
The social world is constructed through human activity
A methodological approach that studies the lived experience of individuals is …
Phenomenology
Deborah Ward’s study of students’ experience of infection control on clinical placements was …
A general qualitative approach
Qualitative samples do not need to represent the population from which they came. True or false?
True
The strongest sampling strategy in qualitative research is…
Purposive
The sample size in qualitative research is best determined by:
Data saturation
