NIU Nurs312 Quiz - 5

QUESTION 1

Marshall randomly selected 250 students from a large university to study their use of drugs and alcohol.

A.

Probability

B.

Nonprobability

QUESTION 2

Casey randomly assigned 152 elders recruited from five nursing homes to a foot massage or wait-list group to assess effects on levels of depression.

A.

Nonprobability

B.

Probability

QUESTION 3

Kendall randomly assigned postsurgical patients to aromatherapy (oil of pepermint) or usua care, to assess effects on nausea.

A.

Experimental

B.

Nonexperimental

C.

Quasi-experimental

QUESTION 4

Solomons studied circadian rhythms in a sample of 45 pregnant women consecutively admitted to a hospital in the first 6 months of 2013 because of severe preeclampsia.

A.

Nonprobability

B.

Probability

QUESTION 5

Turner randomly assigned 50 men and 50 women smokers who responded to a recruitment notice to a smoking cessation intervention or to a control group.

A.

probability

B.

Nonprobability

QUESTION 6

Kane sampled every 26th nurse on a roster of licensed nurses in Florida to study their use of personal digital assistants. the number 26 was selected at random.

A.

Nonprobability

B.

Probability

QUESTION 7

Abraham compared pregnant woman who did or did not have a miscarriage in terms of subsequent marital satisfaction.

A.

Experimental

B.

Nonexperimental

C.

Quasi-experimental

QUESTION 8

Madden compared levels of agitation in two groups of nursing home residents, one group living in a home that received a daily foot massage for two weeks and the other in a home without the massages.

A.

Nonexperimental

B.

Quasi-experimental

C.

Experimental

QUESTION 9

Theriault compared patients who were assigned at random to a program to manage urinary incontinence or to a wait-list group who received the program six months later.

A.

Experimental

B.

Quasi-experimental

C.

Nonexperimental

QUESTION 10

Dean studied daily pain ratings over a 10-week period for a group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis who began a Tai Chi program in week 5.

A.

Nonexperimental

B.

Quasi-experimental

C.

Experimental