Research Final Flashcards
EBP
External Scientific Evidence
Clinical Expertise/ Expert opinion
Client/ Patient/ Caregiver Perspectives
4 steps to EBP
- Forming PICA Questions
- Finding the evidence
- Assessing the evidence
- Making the decision
Interval validity
Internal: answers research question and provides evidence by controlling variance enough to provide a clear picture of the relationship btwn IV and DV
2 threats to internal Validity
Researcher Bias: reflexive about own voice/ perspective
Researcher Reactivity: designed account for influence of researcher on participants behavior
Results Section
Presentation of findings, free of investigator influence, no interpretation or study discussion. address hypotheses.
Measures of central tendency
mean, median and mode
Skewness
the lack of symmetry of a distribution
positively skewed, negatively skewed and symmetrical
Kurtosis
the general form and/or concentration of scores
Mesokurtic: bell-shaped/normal
Leptokurtic: extra peaked dist
Platykurtic: extra flat dist
5 basic types of qualitative research
Narrative, case-study, phenomenological, grounded theory and ethnographic
Narrative Research
collecting stories about individuals.
Case Study Research
in-depth description and analysis of a single individual
multiple sources of info
Phenomenological
focuses on a group of participants who share a life experience
determine presence of concept/idea/phenomenon
Grounded Theory
The goal is to develop a unifying theory that can explain a process, behavior, or interaction that is shaped by the phenomenology of participants
Ethnographic
a qualitative approach that is used when a researcher wants to describe, explain, and otherwise understand the perspectives of a group of individuals
4 ways narrative research is analyzed
Thematically (what was told)
Structurally (how it was told)
Contextually (where/when original action/storytelling took place)
Ideologically (according to specific worldview,mindset or cause)
Data Coding
Open - broad categories (domains), determine themes
Axial - several categories merged into 1 main theme.
Selective - fitting main themes into workable model to develop hypothesis
Parametric Statistics assumptions
1) The population parameter should be normally distributed
2) The level of measurement of the parameter in question should be interval or ratio
3) When there are two or more distributions of data to be analyzed, the variances of the data in the two different distributions should be about the same
4) The sample size should be large (e.g. 30)
Nonparametric statistics used when
assumptions for parametric aren’t met
1) The population parameter is not normally distributed
2) Nominal or ordinal data
3) Unequal variances
4) Small sample sizes (i.e. <10 per group)
Bivariate Descriptive Stats
examine association between 2 variables
valus from -1 to +1
Null Hypothesis
Ho.
States that there is no difference between the groups or no relationship between the variables
Active Hypothesis
The investigator’s best prediction of the differences and relationships based on evidence and theory
statistical analysis can ________ a hypothesis
disprove
Type 1 Error
researcher rejects null (Ho) hypothesis when it is in fact true
Type 2 Error
Research does not reject null (Ho) hypothesis when it is in fact false