Dental Hygiene IV Final (add' to Midterm review)

A time series design measures the dependent variable and is done several times over a period of time.

A study should be randomized if at all possible

Which of the following parts of a research report should include a variety of current and relevant studies?

Currently dental products are under the regulation of which government department?

Which of the following parts of a research report should include a detailed description of the research instruments, equipment, procedures, and method of data analysis?

Which of the following parts of a research report should contain a condensed version of the purpose, methods, results, and conclusion?

A refereed journal is sometimes called (a) ________.

A dental hygienist should recommend products based on the ADA Seal.

Which of the following parts of a research report should include a summary of all relevant data, including statistics and data characteristics.

The ADA Seal of Acceptance program is regulated by the ________.

Which of the following sources can be used to locate information on dental care products?

A dental hygienist who educates patients on dental care products is acting as a consumer advocate.

The measure of confidence in test results is called ________.

A peer-reviewed article indicates that the article has been reviewed by ________.

The FDA provides dental professionals with information concerning various health products through their FDA ________.

PubMed is a reliable source to find research reports and is from the ________.

An example of a peer-reviewed journal is the ________.

In the scientific community it is considered the cutoff point for statistical significance if a p value is equal or less than ________.

Studies need to have enough subjects to be valid.

Which of the following parts of a research report should evaluate and interpret findings?

The number of examiners should be fairly large to ensure calibration.

The median is the ________.

A bar graph is used to present categorical data.

This error occurs when the null hypothesis is rejected, and it is true.

The mode is the ________.

Which theorem suggests that if an infinite number of randomly selected samples is drawn from a population, the means of the samples tend to be normally distributed, and the average of the sample mean is very close to the mean?

Which is determined by subtracting the highest score from the lowest score?

The mean of the following set of values is 3: 7, 7, 8, 8, and 5.

To report an average without a measure of dispersion can misrepresent the data.

The following set of values has two modes: 7, 7, 8, 8, 5.

The mean is commonly considered to be the ________.

Research misconduct may include ________.

Making good ethical decisions in research can help an institution, researchers, and society as a whole. On the other hand, poor ethical choices tend to accumulate or snowball and can sometimes become unethical habits, which can affect all of us.

Government entities such as the state department review research conducted in the private sector.

When a covered entity conducts clinical research involving protected health information (PHI), dental hygienists-investigators must understand the HIPAA privacy rules' restrictions on the use and disclosure of patients' PHI, such as information from a patient's medical chart or test results, as well as an individual's billing information for medical services rendered, when that information is held or transmitted by an entity. PHI also includes identifiable health information about subjects of clinical research gathered by a researcher who is a health care provider

An institutional review board should include which roles?

What act adds to the confidentiality of patient records?

What group is charged with reviewing the ethical implications of a research study?

The Belmont Report describes ethical principles and guidelines for research involving human subjects. Identified principles include which of the following?

Ethics, in a "nutshell," is about doing the right thing.

The Nuremberg Code was a result of ________.

Standard deviation measures:

What percentage of data will fall within 1 standard deviation of the mean?

Alpha value sets the significance level of when the null should be rejected.

P-value represents the likelihood that statistics will occur due to chance.

Which term shows how many standard deviations a given raw score is above or below the mean?

Which of the following are numeric data counted in terms of wholenumbers?

This scale of measurement shows the distance between 2 values as =,with no absolute value.

Which scale of measurement is not used in oral health research?

Which type of statistic will compare groups, test a hypothesis, and make predictions?

What happens when you square a negative integer?

P-value determines the probability of the null hypothesis being true.

What does a p-value of 0.01 mean?

Which of the following demonstrates the strongest correlation coefficient?

Inter-rater reliability is when test administration is consistent from a single examiner.

What type of sampling would give a researcher the most valid and reliable research results?

What type of graph is represented below? 1.) RT-skewed 2.) LF-skewed 3.) Negative correlation 4.) Positive correlation 5.) Upward 6.) Downward

Which of the following is a nonparametric test that compares two or more data sets from different sample groups?

What type of research error occurs when a researcher mistakenly accepts null hypothesis?

Nonparametric inferential tests are selected to be used when which of the following is being utilized in the study? 1.) Quantitative data 2.) Qualitative data 3.) Small sample sizes 4.) Large sample sizes 5.) Standard Bell curve 6.) Skewed Bell curve

In a posttest-only design, the independent variable is introducing and then the dependent variable is measured.

Posttest sensitization is the effect of the pretest on the outcome of the study.

Dental caries is the most common of all diseases.

Root caries are most common in teenagers.

Place the Steps of the Scientific Method in the correct order. 1)Form and educated guess (hypothesis) of the cause of the problem and make predictions based on the hypothesis. 2)Check and interpret results. 3)Name the problem or question. 4)Report results to scientific community

Historical approach

Cohort

Descriptive approach

Case report

Case study