Midterm Exam of nursing research
Third Year Students
Date: 4/5/2016 Nursing research
Time: 1 hrs Total Marks: 20 Marks
Please answer the following questions:
Define the Following: (2) (8 Marks)I-
1-Questionnaire:-
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2-research
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III-List the Following: (12 Marks).
A- Characteristic of good questionnaire:
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B– The research Process:
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GOOD LUCK
Dr .yousseria El said Youssef
Dr. Manal Mohammed Ahmed
Definition of Questionnaires: Is a paper–and pencil self-reporting instruments, it contains questions that respondents are asked to answer in writing.
Questionnaires can be used to measures knowledge levels, opinions, attitudes, factual information, beliefs, ideas, feelings, and perceptions as well as to gather information.
Definition of research: Is scientific process that validates old knowledge and generate new knowledge that directly or indirectly influences clinical nursing practices. The process through which is systematic logical and empirical into the possible relationships among particular phenomena.
List the following:
1- Characteristic of good questionnaire:
2- 1- It is important to use a high quality printing process and paper.
3- 2- Questionnaire should be neat in appearance, grammatically correct, and contain no typing or spelling errors.
4- 3- Questionnaire should not be cluttered or crowded appearance to avoid confusion.
5- 4- Adequate margin and spacing of the questions are needed.
6- 5- It is better to add another page to the questionnaire rather than to crowding too many questions.
7- 6- Questionnaire should be written in a respondents preferred language and appropriate for the knowledge and reading level of the least education.
8- 7- Questionnaire should be short kept as possible.
9- 8- A desirable length of a question is less than 20 words.
10- A question need to be divided into two questions if the length becomes excessive or the question asks more than one idea at a time.
The research Process:
The research process is the tool of science it involves a series of progressive steps that usually include some version of the following: 1- Stating a research problem.
2- Defining the purpose of the research. 3- Reviewing related literature. 4- Formulating hypothesis of the variable. 5- Selecting the research design.
11- 6- Selecting the population and sample.
12- 7- Conducting a pilot study.
13- 8- Collecting the data.
14- 9- Analysis of data.
15- 10- Communicating conclusions.