Chapters 4 and 5 Quiz

Question 1

What are the potential uses for a qualitative synthesis approach to a systematic review?

Answer 1

• To develop, advance, or validate a theory
• To examine the relationship in the data
• To highlight merging topics

Question 2

The inclusion/exclusion criteria is not dependent on the research question.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

A meta-analysis is a type of __________________________.

Answer 3

Quantitative analysis

Question 4

Why is it important to perform an efficient and thorough search?

Answer 4

• To endeavor to locate all relevant articles
• To minimize the number of irrelevant articles retrieved
• To minimize bias in the review

Question 5

What is the impact of social media use on depression and anxiety in teenagers and young adults?

1. What is the study population?
2. What is/are the dependent variable(s)?
3. Is/are the dependent variable(s) categorical or continuous?
4. What is/are the independent variable(s)?
5. Is/are the independent variable(s) categorical or continuous?
6. What is the null hypothesis?
7. What is an alternative hypothesis?
8. Is the alternative hypothesis one-sided or two-sided?

Answer 5

1. Teenagers and young adults
2. Depression and anxiety
3. Categorial
4. Social media use
5. Categorical
6. There is no association between social media use and depression / anxiety.
7. Social media use leads to increased incidence of depression / anxiety.
8. One-sided

Question 6

Which database includes journal articles, dissertations, patient education materials, tests and evaluation instruments pertaining to health care?

Answer 6

CINAHL

Question 7

When searching in a database, use “AND” and “OR” to find items that overlap on all aspects of the topic in question.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

PICO is a framework commonly used in clinical health research to break down the concepts of a clinical question.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

All databases have similar functions and use similar terminology to process articles.

Answer 9

False