Question

The nursing student accompanies a group of registered nurses in a campaign that promotes the participation of parents to get their children immunized. After the campaign's completion, the group prepares a report that counts the number of immunizations and compares it to last year's report. Which type of research does the nursing student think that the group is doing?

a) Descriptive research
b) Experimental research
c) Correlational research
d) Qualitative research

Answer 1

The group is conducting descriptive research.

Step-by-step explanation:

The nursing student thinks that the group is conducting a) descriptive research.

Descriptive research involves collecting and analyzing data to describe a phenomenon or to compare it to previous data. In this case, the group is counting the number of immunizations and comparing it to last year's report, which is a form of descriptive research.

When the nursing student accompanies a group of registered nurses in a campaign that tallies the number of immunizations and compares it to the previous year’s data, they are conducting a type of research known as descriptive research. This involves collecting data that describes events and then organizes, tabulates, depicts, and describes the data collection. It does not include a hypothesis or any predictions about what the findings might be, which differentiates it from experimental or correlational research. In contrast, experimental research involves manipulating one variable to determine if changes in one variable cause changes in another variable. This campaign simply observes and records the number of immunizations without manipulating any variables.