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NURS 2031 Lecture 1 : Introduction to Health Research Questions With Complete Solutions
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NURS 2031 Lecture 1 : Introduction to Health ResearchQuestions With Complete Solutions
Aim and Paradigms: Correct Answer Post-positivism:
Explanation
Prediction
Control
Critical theory:
Critique
Change
Reconstruction of what we know to be true
Emancipation
Constructive:
Understanding
Reconstruction of what we know to be true
CIHI: Correct Answer Federal agency that funds health
research in Canada
Deduction and Induction: Correct Answer Two distinct phases
of theorizing:
1. Deduction:
Testing of pre-existing hypothesis
Begin with pre-existing theory and collect or assemble data to
test a hypothesis derived from that theory
2. Induction:
, Generation of new theories
Findings from a study may be used to generate concepts and
new hypothesis that are then developed, modified, and tested in
other projects
Define Health Research. Correct Answer • Any research that is
relevant to health, incorporating a diverse number of
methodologies
Define Research Correct Answer • A systemic process of
enquire that aims to generate new scientific knowledge.
Defining Health Research: Correct Answer Research
Systematic process of enquiry that aims to generate new
scientific knowledge
Health research
Any research relevant to health
Incorporates diverse number of methodologies
Defining Health: 1948 WHO Correct Answer • In 1948 WHO
defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental and
social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity".
• Updated version of WHO (1984 definition of health)
......the extend to which an individual or group is able to realize
aspirations and satisfy needs, to change or cope with the
environment. Health is a resource for everyday life, not the
objective of living; it is a positive concept, emphasizing social
and personal resources, as well as physical capacities.
• "The capacity of people to adapt to, respond to, or control life's
challenges and changes" Frankish et al. (1996)
, Describe the Epistemological foundation Critical Realism.
Correct Answer - says that sometimes things just cannot be
explained, measured or observed
- try's to use theory but it cannot always be used
- emphasize context and that it can change any situation
Describe the Epistemological foundation Interpretivism Correct
Answer - believe that everyone experiences things in their own
way through personal experience
- says that each person has a different view on reality
- does not try to generalize results because everyone experiences
reality differently
Describe the Epistemological foundation Positivism Correct
Answer - relies on hard science
- relies on concrete results of things
- tried to make things generalized
- believes that there is only ONE reality
- tries to create theories about why something is happening
Describe the Ontology of Constructivist/Constructivism.
Correct Answer • Socially constructed objects, beliefs,
behaviours, etc. (Ie. sexuality, gender, etc.).
Describe the Ontology of Objectivist/Objectivism Correct
Answer • Researcher study phenomena that exist as external
objects, things that they cannot change of control (weight, height
of an individual)
E-T-P Link Correct Answer E- education
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