A nurse researcher is concerned that potential subjects in a ...

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A nurse researcher is concerned that potential subjects in a planned research study may provide the responses to questions based upon the responses being socially acceptable. Which data collection method should this researcher plan for this study?
 
  1. Projective technique
  2. Attitude scale
  3. Questionnaire
  4. Interviews

Question 2

A question asks subjects to respond to the following statement: The nursing care I received during my hospital stay considered my needs as an individual. They were asked to identify, on a five-point scale, the degree to which they agreed or disagreed with the statement. This is an example of which scale?
 
  1. Sort scale
  2. Likert scale
  3. Visual analog scale
  4. Semantic differential scale

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Answer to Question 1

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Rationale 1: The projective technique is thought to be more accurate in gathering psychological data.
Rationale 2: Participants may respond in what they perceive is a socially acceptable manner to these attitude scales.
Rationale 3: A major disadvantage of a questionnaire as a data collection tool is that the respondents may provide the socially acceptable answers rather than their true feelings or responses to questions.
Rationale 4: Participants may respond in a socially acceptable manner when being interviewed.
Global Rationale:

Answer to Question 2

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Rationale 1: The Q sort has participants sort statements into categories according to their attitudes toward, or rating of, the statements.
Rationale 2: A Likert scale is a five-point to seven-point scale on which respondents are asked to indicate the extent/degree to which they agree or disagree with a neutrally worded statement.
Rationale 3: The visual analog scale presents subjects with a straight line drawn on a piece of paper. This line is anchored on each end by words or phrases that represent the extremes of the phenomenon being rated. Subjects mark on the line at the point that corresponds to their experience.
Rationale 4: A semantic differential asks subjects to indicate their position or attitude about some concept along a continuum between two adjectives or phrases that are presented in relation to the concept being measured.
Global Rationale: