Week 1: Research Problems, Research Questions And Hypothesis

Question 1

What is a aim/ purpose statement?

Answer 1

It identifies the study group/ population and the key concepts/ variables and summarises the study goal.

Question 2

If a research problem consists of people + problem. Eg, Aim: To investigate diet barriers and identify their influencing factors among T2DM outpatients with poor glycaemic control in SG.
What type of study is it?

Answer 2

Descriptive correlational study

Question 3

Eg, Aim: To investigate diet barriers and identify their influencing factors among T2DM outpatients with poor glycaemic control in SG.
Please identify the people and problem in the above statement.

Answer 3

People: T2DM patients
Problem: diet barriers

Question 4

If a study has people + phenomenon
Eg. To explore the experiences, needs, and barriers with regards to DM self care management for people living with DM in SG.
what type of study is this?

Answer 4

Descriptive Qualitative study

Question 5

Please identify the people and phenomenon in the statement below:

Eg. To explore the experiences, needs, and barriers with regards to DM self care management for people living with DM in SG.

Answer 5

People: DM patients in SG
Phenomenon: experiences, needs and barriers

Question 6

If an aim consists of people + program,

Eg. Aim: to develop and validate a Nurse- led smartphone- based- self management Programme (NSSMP) among patients with poor glycaemic control

What type of study is this?

Answer 6

Descriptive study

Question 7

Eg. Aim: to develop and validate a Nurse- led smartphone- based- self management Programme (NSSMP) among patients with poor glycaemic control
Please identify the people + programme in the above statement.

Answer 7

People: patients with poor glycaemic control
Programme: program validity of NSSMP

Question 8

If a study has people, program, problem and phenomenon, what type of study is it?

Answer 8

Pretest-posttest, control group

Question 9

What type of qualitative research designs are there? 5

Answer 9

1. Descriptive
2. Ethnography
3. Participatory action
4. Grounded theory
5. Phenomological

Question 10

What types of quantitative research designs are there 3 ?

Answer 10

1. True experimental
2. Quasi experimental
3. Non experimental

Question 11

How many types of true experimental (quantitative) research designs are there?

Answer 11

2. Pretest-posttest control group
   Posttest only control group.

Question 12

Which group of research design does pretest-posttest control group and posttest only control group belong to?

Answer 12

Quantitative. True experimental

Question 13

How many types of quasi experimental research designs are there under quantitative?

Answer 13

3. • non equivalent control group pretest - posttest
   • one group pretest-posttest
   • time series design

Question 14

Which types of research design do these belong to ?
- non equivalent control group pretest - posttest
- one group pretest-posttest
- time series design

Answer 14

Quasi experimental research design, quantitative

Question 15

What types of design are there under non experimental quantitative research design?

Answer 15

• descriptive
• descriptive correlational
• comparative descriptive

Question 16

Which quantitative research design uses verbs such as “ test, evaluate / compare”

Answer 16

True experimental and Quasi experimental

Question 17

Which quantitative research design uses verbs such as examine or explore?

Answer 17

Non experimental

Question 18

Which research design uses verbs such as explore, describe, understand, discover or generate?

Answer 18

Qualitative research design