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Please answer the following five questions and formulate your own rationalizations
as you answer. Correct answers will be revealed on Saturday. Thank you!

PROFESSIONAL ADJUSTMENT, LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, ETHICS AND RESEARCH

Situation: Research is essential to development of any profession. Through research, knowledge can
be validated and defined, and new knowledge can be generated. A team of researchers proposed a
study on the individual effect of preoperative teaching on the early ambulation of women who
undergone abdominal hysterectomy. Target populations are the woman admitted on the same day of
the abdominal hysterectomy.

1.Which of the following is the most appropriate method of use?

a.non-experimental method
b.qualitative method
c.quantitative method
d.experimental method

2. Which of the following designs would be most appropriate to use in attempting to determine the
participant’s early ambulation after they will be given preoperative teachings?
a.time series design
b.pretest-postest control group design
c.solomon four group design
d.one shot case study

3.In the proposed study, the researcher defined the selected groups and asked what sample size
should be used. Since there are many qualifiers that to some extent samples must be specific to the
study, the general rule to the sample size is to:
a.determine the duration of the study
b.consider the type of study
c.establish the number of variables
d.make the sample as large as possible

4.The independent variable that is manipulated is:

a.women
b.abdominal hysterectomy
c.health outcomes
d.preoperative teachings

5.In treating the data to be collected, the researcher will use which of the following statistical tools?
a.pearson coefficient correlation
b.weighted mean
c.chi-square test
d.t-test