Module 8

Question 1

This covers literature related to nursing and allied health.
This database provides authoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health.

Answer 1

Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL)

Question 2

is a collection of databases that contain independent evidence on which to base clinical treatment decisions.

Answer 2

Cochrane Library

Question 3

is an abstract and indexing database in biomedicine which also excels in its coverage of pharmaceutical research. It currently contains more than 15 million records from Excerpta Medica Database (1974 to present) and selected Medline records (1966-present). Currently the Library does not own the archives of Embase from 1947 to 1973.

Answer 3

EMBASE: Excerpta Medica Database

Question 4

is an intuitive online research platform used by thousands of institutions and millions of users worldwide.

Answer 4

EBSCOhost

Question 5

This is a database that provides information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.

Answer 5

HAPI: Health and Psychosocial Instruments

Question 6

is the National Library of Medicine’s premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.

Answer 6

MEDLINE

Question 7

This is an abstract and index of Psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, nursing, sociology, business, education, etc.

Answer 7

PsycINFO

Question 8

Contains information on research methods including over 120,000 pages of SAGE book, journal, and reference content.

Answer 8

SAGE Research Methods

Question 9

contains over 20,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide with 49 million records, 78% with abstracts. It Includes over 5.3 million conference papers and provides 100% Medline coverage with interoperability with ScienceDirect, Engineering Village and Reaxys

Answer 9

Scopus

Question 10

is the largest citation database in science, engineering, medicine and technology; also the social sciences, arts and humanities are represented.

Answer 10

Web of Science

Question 11

This is a search engine that focuses on academic output. This link is proxied for
users off campus so you can download full text.

Answer 11

Google Scholar

Question 12

This is a database that focuses on nursing and allied health, and which provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals.

Answer 12

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Question 13

This is amazing International literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Answer 13

Sociological Abstracts

Question 14

This free resource has the following features:
* Free registration
* Abstracts from dozens of nursing conferences
* Investigator-entered information on cutting edge research * Contact information for investigators and authors
* Access to 6 free full-text articles a month on nursing topics

Answer 14

Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library

Question 15

are the raw material or raw numbers statisticians work on.

Answer 15

Data

Question 16

What are the Two types of variables or data?

Answer 16

Qualitative and Quantitative Variables

Question 17

This represent differences in quality, character, or kind but not in amount. In short, they do not yield numeric variables. The following are examples but not limited to: birthplace, geographic locations, religion, civil status, sex, skin color, eye color, etc.

Answer 17

Qualitative variables

Question 18

This represent the quantity, thereby is numerical in nature. It can be ordered and ranked. The following are examples but not limited to: age, height, weight, test scores, vital signs, etc.

Answer 18

Quantitative variables

Question 19

Quantitative variables can be further classified to the following:

Answer 19

Discrete and Continuous

Question 20

These variables are counted using integral (non-decimal) values like number of students, number of admissions, number of testing centers, etc.

Answer 20

Discrete

Question 21

These variables are counted using decimals or fractions that represents a numerical difference over an interval/s such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure.

Answer 21

Continuous

Question 22

This is the stand-alone variable that cannot be affected by other controlled variables.

Answer 22

Independent Variable

Question 23

This is the variable that is being predicted

Answer 23

Dependent Variable

Question 24

The process of assigning a numerical value to a variable is called?

Answer 24

measurement

Question 25

are categorical in nature. It has the purpose of identifying name or membership to a specific group. All qualitative variables are measured on this scale. Observations can classified and counted without particular order or ranking imposed on the data.

Answer 25

Nominal Data

Question 26

this means the imposition of ranks or inequalities. This implies that one category is higher than the other. This type of data presents numbers to be either greater than or less than measurements.

Answer 26

Ordinal Data

Question 27

This indicate an actual amount and there is an equal unit of measurement separating each value at equal intervals. For example the difference between 60 and 70 is the same as the difference between 80 and 90.

Answer 27

Interval Data

Question 28

similar to interval data, but the difference is that this has an absolute zero and multiples have meanings

Answer 28

Ratio Data

Question 29

This allow people to see the responses or votes of other people toward a topic or an issue in real-time.

Answer 29

Digital Polls

Question 30

is a leading global survey platform, trusted by millions of organizations and individuals to help them uncover insights about their customers, employees, and prospects.

Answer 30

Survey Monkey

Question 31

This format is often used for lab reports as well as for reporting any planned, systematic research in the social sciences, natural sciences, or engineering and computer sciences.

Answer 31

“IMRaD” format

Question 32

This section tells readers how you conducted your study. It includes information about your population, sample, methods, and equipment.

Answer 32

Methods

Question 33

In this section, you present your findings.

Answer 33

Results

Question 34

In this section, you summarize your main findings, comment on those findings (see below), and connect them to other research

Answer 34

Discussion

Question 35

This provides a very short overview of the entire paper, including a sentence or two about the report’s purpose and importance, a sentence or two about your methods, a few sentences that present the main findings, and a sentence or two about the implications of your findings.

Answer 35

Abstract

Question 36

This software allows the researcher to save time in doing manual organizations of qualitative data. Researchers can import text, audio, video, emails, images, spreadsheets, online surveys, web content and social media from various sources into a simple, intuitive interface.

Answer 36

NVivo

Question 37

One of the modern statistical softwares in the market. Organizations of all types and sizes depend on statistical analysis to guide critical decisions

Answer 37

SAS for Statistical Analysis Software

Question 38

the leading statistical software for advanced statistical analysis, a vast library of machine learning algorithms, text analysis, open source extensibility, integration with big data and seamless deployment into applications.

Answer 38

SPSS or Statistical Package for Social Sciences