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What are other names for ‘paradigm’?

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  • research traditions
  • world views
  • methodologies
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What is a paradigm?

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  • patterns of belief and general assumptions
    • set of physilogical underpinnings
  • provide viewpoint, process and principles
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What paradigms are used in nursing research?

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Quantitative and qualitative

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What are the ‘Quantative’ paradigms?

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  • positivism (empiricism)

- post-positivism

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What are the ‘qualitative’ paradigms?

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Interpretive
Constructivism
Critical social theory

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What term is used to describe something measures quantitively?

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Objectively

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What is a positivist viewpoint?

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View point accepted if it can be objectively measured

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What are the advantages of positive paradigm Quantative research?

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  • generalisability
  • description and prediction
  • objective
  • verifiable
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What are the limitations for positive paradigms quantative research?

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  • context stripping
  • explanation needed
  • value free
  • truth rarely established
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What are the advantages for interpretivist paradigm qualitative research?

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  • articulates voices if participants
  • subjective
  • multiple realities
  • seeks understanding
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What are the limitations for interpretivist paradigm qualitative research?

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  • ignore risk factors
  • less objective
  • less explanatory theories limited
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What is Quantative research!

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Using numerical data

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What is qualitative data?

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Using words as data

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What are the 5 stages of Quantative research?

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  1. Research Question
  2. Hypothesis
  3. Research Design
  4. Data Collection
  5. Analysis of Data
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What is a research question?

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The starting point - a question arisen

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What is the hypothesis?

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  • overall aim of the study
  • a prediction about the relationship of factors being studied
  • cause & effect
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What us a null hypothesis?

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  • no difference between factors being studied

- at the beginning of the research this is assumed to be true

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What is a variable?

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Factors being investigated.

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What us a dependant variable?

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What is measured.

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What is the i dependant variable?

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What is changed.

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Methodology in research is?

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A set of principles that direct research

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What are the features of Quantitive research?

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Standersized
Aims, objectives, hypothesis, have to be stated
Data collected must be measurable

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What is not a result of Quantative research?

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Results must be in words

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What is a case control study?

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Observational study

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What is not one if the Bradford Hill criteria for causation?

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Triangulation if relationship