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NURSING RESEARCH ACADEMY ENDURING MATERIAL

How to Measure What You Want to Study

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH

POST-TEST

1.All of the following would best be measured with quantitative methods except:

A.level of pain following treatment with Tylenol with codeine versus Percocet

B.rate of pressure ulcers in spinal injury patients

C.changes in family dynamics after one parent's diagnosis with cancer

D.ICU patients' blood pressure following visits by family members

2.If you choose to do a quantitative research study on coping ability and you find an

instrument that measures coping ability,

A.you can go ahead and assume that the instrument is effective at measuring coping

ability for your patient population

B.you will need to check that the instrument's validity and reliability have been

established and will fit your patient population

C.you can assume that this is the only instrument available to measure coping ability

D.you will definitely be able to obtain the instrument to use free of charge.

3.Which of the following is not true?

A.a study's internal validity is the degree to which the study is actually demonstrating

a causal effect.

B.an instrument's level of reliability is the degree to which it can measure the same

way each time it is used under the same conditions with the same subjects.

C.an instrument's level of validity is the degree to which it measures what you think it

is measuring.

D.only researchers involved in large, funded studies need to check on the reliability

and validity of the instruments they use.

4.All of the following are examples of commonly used methods of gathering data for

quantitative studies EXCEPT:

A.Likert scale used to assess level of patient satisfaction with care provided in office

visits

B.focus group to study the experience of black women who are breast cancer survivors

C.retrospective chart review to study rates of patient compliance with provider

recommendations

D.prospective tracking of symptoms of depression using PHQ-9 to determine

effectiveness of a depression support group

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