NSG 3029 Week 3 Discussion Question
NSG 3029 Week 3 Discussion Question
Variables
in a Research Study and Data Collection
In this
assignment, you will explore the variables and data collection involved in a
research study.
Complete
the following task:
Read the
following and choose one of the articles from the Cumulative Index to Nursing
and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) Database in the South University Online
Library:
Course
Content Related to Chronic Wounds in Nursing Degree Programs in Spain
Health
Empowerment among Immigrant Women in Transnational Marriages in Taiwan.
Discussion
Read the
process for data collection employed in the study. As a part of your discussion
response, identify the method used in the study.
Provide a
bulleted list of the five tasks performed as part of data collection in the
study. Follow the bulleted list in the summary as key points. Enter your
responses in the organizer
Citations should
conform to APA guidelines. You may use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient
reference for properly citing resources.
This chapter concerns research on collecting, representing, and analyzing the data that underlie behavioral and social sciences knowledge. Such research, methodological in character, includes ethnographic and historical approaches, scaling, axiomatic measurement, and statistics, with its important relatives, econometrics and psychometrics. The field can be described as including the self-conscious study of how scientists draw inferences and reach conclusions from observations. Since statistics is the largest and most prominent of methodological approaches and is used by researchers in virtually every discipline, statistical work draws the lion’s share of this chapter’s attention.
Problems of interpreting data arise whenever inherent variation or measurement fluctuations create challenges to understand data or to judge whether observed relationships are significant, durable, or general. Some examples: Is a sharp monthly (or yearly) increase in the rate of juvenile delinquency (or unemployment) in a particular area a matter for alarm, an ordinary periodic or random fluctuation, or the result of a change or quirk in reporting method? Do the temporal patterns seen in such repeated observations reflect a direct causal mechanism, a complex of indirect ones, or just imperfections in the data? Is a decrease in auto injuries an effect of a new seat-belt law? Are the disagreements among people describing some aspect of a subculture too great to draw valid inferences about that aspect of the culture?