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A quantitative methodology is only concerned with what?

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With the phenomena that can objectively be measured

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A methodology research is?

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A set of principles that directs research

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What is not a key feature of quantitative research?

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When the results are only clearly described in words

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Case control studies are what?

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A type of observational study

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What is not a Bradford hill criteria for causation?

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The triangulation of the relationship

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Null hypothesis test is what?

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Is where the statement is made about there being no difference between groups the control and intervention arms, the start has to be disproved

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In quantitative research an aim is what?

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The overall outcome or what you are intending to achieve

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The study sample is what?

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It is patients drawn from the study population

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The main reasons for using randomisation is to allocate treatments to patients in a controlled trial is to ?

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Prevent certain types of bias

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A method of allocation least likely to achieve balance of important patient characteristics between group is to use what?

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Simple randomisation

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Reliability addresses whether?

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Measurements or assessments provide a consistent result

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The main outcome for a study is called?

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Primary outcome

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Validity in a study means?

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That the measurement tool measures what it is supposed to measure

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What is a threat to internal validity in a trial

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Maturation

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The hawthawn effect is?

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A participants response to being in a study

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A type 2 error is?

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A false negative response

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Which p value would be most statistically significant?

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P

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Statistics that produce p values are called what?

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Inferential statistics

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Baseline data is?

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Data that has been collected before intervention but after recruitment

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Which level of measurement data has a fixed zero?

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Ratio

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Qualitative research is useful when?

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Little is known about the subject or problem

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Samples in qualitative research are usually what?

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Usually small

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Qualitative researchers believe that

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The social world is constructed through human activity

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A methodological approach that studies a lived experience of individuals is what?

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Phenomenology

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Deb wards study of student experience of infection and control in placement was?

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General qualitative approach

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Qualitative samples do not..

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Need to represent the population from which they came

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The strongest sampling strategy in qualitative research is

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Purposive

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The sample size in qualitative research is best determined by

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Data saturation.

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Purposive sampling involves

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Selecting participants who can give the most information

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There are a number of different ways to select a sample in qualitative studies and many different words and phrases to describe what?

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The approach

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Qualitative researchers prefer to use alternatives to the terms validity and reliability that are used to assess the rigour of quantitative studies. what term do they prefer to use instead of rigour and reliability/ repeatability?

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Trustworthiness and dependability

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What is the weakest form of sampling

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Convenience

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Observations can be recorded using

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All of the answers from the study

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And interview topic guide is what?

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A set of headings that guides the discussion

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A focus group can be useful why?

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To encourage a discussion about a topic

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The optimal size for a focus group is

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8-10

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Deb ward collected data for her study using what?

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Semi structural interviews

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What is never an aim of qualitative data analysis

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To attribute a cause

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In qualitative data analysis counting ..

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Can be useful

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Software packages in qualitative data analysis

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Help to organise data

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What did Deb ward use to analyse her data?

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Framework analysis

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An adult trial is what ?

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It is a trial where decisions are made by the researcher to reach conclusions that have been presented

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Triangulation involves

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Researching the topic from different perspectives

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It is important to present quotes from who?

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From a variety of participants

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In a qualitative paper you would expect the relationship between the researcher and participant to be what?

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Described

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What should be included in a quantitative research study?

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Aim
Objective
Hypothesis
Relations between variables

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How should results be presented in quantitative research study

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Statistically

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What is in the Bradford hill criteria

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Temporal relationship
Strength 
Dose response relationship
Consistency
Plausibility
Consideration of alternate explanation
Experiment
Specificity
Coherence

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