Intro

Question 1

When did the first journal on research emerge and when did clinical research become important?

Answer 1

1950s

1970s

Question 2

What are the two key paradigms for nursing research?

Answer 2

Positivist

Naturalistic

Question 3

How does positivist vs naturalistic view: Nature of Reality?

Answer 3

Positivist: Reality exists, there is a real world driven by natural causes
Naturalistic: Reality is multiple and subjective; constructed by individuals

Question 4

How does positivist vs naturalistic view: Inquirer Relation to those being studied?

Answer 4

Positivist: Inquirer is independent from those being studied
Naturalistic: Inquirer interacts with those being studied; findings reflect this interaction

Question 5

How does positivist vs naturalistic view: Roles of values

Answer 5

Positivist: Values are held in check; objectivity is sought
Naturalistic: Subjectivity and values are inevitable and desirable

Question 6

How does positivist vs naturalistic view: Titles?

Answer 6

Positivist: Participants
Naturalistic: Informants

Question 7

Which is usually aligned with a positivist tradition; qualitative or quantitative?

Answer 7

Quantitative

Question 8

Which is usually aligned with a naturalist tradition; qualitative or quantitative?

Answer 8

Qualitative

Question 9

What are the three forms of qualitative research

Answer 9

Grounded Theory
Phenomenology
Ethnography

Question 10

Give a brief description of grounded theory

Answer 10

Describe and understand key social-psychological processes that occur in social settings

Question 11

Give a brief description of phenomenology

Answer 11

Focus on lived experiences and learning what they are like and what they mean

Question 12

Give a brief description of ethnography

Answer 12

Studying the meanings, patterns and experience of a defined cultural group

Question 13

The SALSA framework is used to characterize types of reviews against 4 critical steps. What are these steps?

Answer 13

Search
AppraisaL
Synthesis
Analysis

Question 14

When would you use a systematic research review?

Answer 14

To seek best currently available answer to a specific, focused question to support decision making

Question 15

When would you use a scoping research review?

Answer 15

Identify key gaps in knowledge base of literature and answer broad questions

Question 16

When would you use a realist research review?

Answer 16

To understand complex interventions and how they work

What works for whom, under which circumstances

Question 17

When would you use an integrative research review?

Answer 17

When you want to be exhaustive and maximize number of studies involved to examine nature and extent of literature

Question 18

When would you use a qualitative systematic research review?

Answer 18

When you want to look for themes/constructs across qualitative studies and bring together data to form a new interpretation

Question 19

When would you use an umbrella research review?

Answer 19

When you wish to do a review of reviews. Aim is to pull message from a number of reviews where there is competing interventions that have been reviewed