NURS-5366 MODULE 5 | NURS-5366 PRINC OF RESEARCH IN NURSING
QUIZ QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS 2024/2025
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Question 1 pts
A Family Nurse Practitioner believes that he has developed an
intervention that can accelerate weight loss in adults with Type II diabetes
when administered with a healthy diet. He recruits 25 participants from a
local church. He obtains each participant’s weight prior to beginning the
intervention (of a walking program alternating with resistance training).
After a month of the treatment, all of the participants are weighed again.
Which statistical test should the researcher select to determine the effect
of his intervention on weight loss?
Module 5 Quiz : 2215-NURS-5366-402-PRINC OF RESEARCH IN NURSING
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Question 2 pts
A nurse in a cardiovascular ICU developed an intervention that she
believes can reduce patient time on the ventilator post-operatively. She
recruits study participants from the offices of cardiovascular surgeons.
She randomizes the participants to two groups, a treatment group and a
control group. She provides a novel teaching intervention along with a
spirometer to each participant in the treatment group one week prior to
their surgery. Participants in the control group received customary care.
After each participant’s surgery, the researcher records the number of
hours that they are on the ventilator post-operatively. Which statistical test
should she select to determine the effects of her intervention on time
spent on ventilator post-operatively?
Pearson’s correlation coefficient (r)
Paired t-test
Independent samples t-test
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Question 3 pts
A nurse is reading a journal article on the effects of patient incivility on
nursing burn-out. The results of the study were r = 0.50, p = .04 (with
alpha set at .05). The nurse correctly summarizes that:
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