Research Flashcards
Describe evidenced based practices
Helps SW to consider the most promising ways to intervene in given situations
What are the steps of EBP?
- Identify problem
- Develop question
- Search for info
- Choose intervention
- Rely on experience
- Decide how to evaluate
- Review data
Steps of Research
- Problem formulation
- Study design
- Methodology
- Data collection
- analysis of results
- results
What is an independent variable?
explanatory variable that cause the dependent variable to change
What is an dependent variable?
response variable; responds to independent variable
Describe a probability sample
participants randomly selected every individual considered for the study has equal opportunity to be included
Describe a Non probability sample
whoever is available and willing to participate (snowball sample)
What is internal validity?
Confidence with which we can say that a relationship exists between variables
What is external validity?
how valid the results are for other populations (generalizability)
Name 4 ethical issues in research
- informed consent
- voluntary participation
- confidentiality
- do no harm
T or F in crisis you do not delay tx in order to obtain baseline data
True
T or F correlation implies association not causation
True
