Question

Individuals with strong religious beliefs often turn to their faith to cope with stressful life events. Relying on God’s love and caring is referred to as positive religious coping.

Andrea Phelps and her colleagues studied the relationship between positive religious coping and the type of care received by terminally ill cancer patients. Most of the patients in the study were Christian. [Source: Phelps, A. et al., "Religious coping and use of intensive life-prolonging care near death in patients with advanced cancer." Journal of the American Medical Association, 301 (2009): 1140–1147.]

Suppose another researcher conducts a similar study but uses a sample of patients whose religious traditions are more varied than the patients in the Phelps study. She samples 200 terminally ill patients to see whether their practicing a religion is related to how likely they are to have a do-not-resuscitate order.

The following table shows the results of the study.
Observed Frequencies
Do-Not-Resuscitate Order
Practices a Religion Yes No
Yes 65 19
No 55 61

1. Given these data, the most appropriate test to use to check whether there is a significant relationship between whether terminally ill patients practice a religion and whether they have a do-not-resuscitate order is a(n) _

Answer 1

The most appropriate test to use is the Chi-Square test to check the relationship between practicing a religion and having a do-not-resuscitate order for terminally ill patients.

Step-by-step explanation:

The most appropriate test to use to check whether there is a significant relationship between whether terminally ill patients practice a religion and whether they have a do-not-resuscitate order is the Chi-Square test. The Chi-Square test is used to determine if there is a significant association between two categorical variables. In this case, the two variables are practicing a religion (yes/no) and having a do-not-resuscitate order (yes/no).