Critique 1 Running head: RESEARCH CRITIQUE Research Critique of "The Influence of Personal Message with Music on Anxiety and Side Effects Associated with Chemotherapy" Jennifer Robey BSN Duke University N 307 Spring 2005 Research Critique 2 Research Critique of "The Influence of Personal Message with Music on Anxiety and Side Effects Associated with Chemotherapy" Introduction The introduction of this article does give you a sense of the importance of the problem area
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Super Size Me and Society 15 January 2010 There has been a lot of stir in the media lately regarding McDonalds and its role in obese children in society. So much so that restrictions and regulations have been proposed and passed in California to ban toys from unhealthy meals that appeal to kids. When I first heard about this I thought it was pretty ridiculous. Americans should be free to do what we please. My opinion has changed since watching Super Size Me. I didn’t watch Super Size Me when
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Name_____________________ Date_______________________ “Super Size Me!” A Study of Macromolecules and Diet Part 1: “Super Size Me” and Scientific Inquiry Direction: Use information from the movie to answer the questions below. 1. What was the background information that led Morgan Spurlock to conduct his study? Obese is the second cause of death. 2. What was his research question? 3. Did he have a hypothesis? What was the hypothesis? Eating McDonalds is unhealthy 4. Describe
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SUPER-SIZE ME In the documentary Super-Size Me‚ Morgan Spurlock sets out to prove how harmful and dangerous fast food‚ in particularly McDonalds‚ can be to a person’s health and wellbeing. After hearing the McDonalds Corporations defence against the lawsuit filed by two obese teenagers‚ who claimed that their overweight conditions were the cause of eating at the fast food establishment‚ filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock came up with the idea to start a similar experiment on himself‚ by eating
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Abstract The purpose of this project was to measure how closely two psychological surveys were related. Our first survey measured the subjects ’ level of social physique anxiety; our second survey measured the subjects ’ level of hypersensitive narcissism. Our findings were that the measures were moderately correlated. Significance testing proved that they were directly related to each other. Correlation Project: Social Physique Anxiety and Hypersensitive Narcissism Our initial hypothesis
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packet’s they have small quotations such as ‘smoking kills’ or ‘smoking can cause lung cancer’. This is to create a certain amount of arousal in the person by using fear‚ making them want to quit. The Ruiter study used fear arousal to examine the effect on attitude toward participating in early detection activities. The detection activities researched in this study by Ruiter was breast self-examination for cancer. The level of participant’s fear arousal was measured by their reaction to ten different
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APPLIED EPIDEMIOLOGY 1. Discuss odds ratio. An odds ratio (OR) is a measure of association between an exposure and an outcome. The OR represents the odds that an outcome will occur given a particular exposure‚ compared to the odds of the outcome occurring in the absence of that exposure. Odds ratios are most commonly used in case-control studies‚ however they can also be used in cross-sectional and cohort study designs as well (with some modifications and/or assumptions). In statistics‚
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conducted in order to investigate the effects of anxiety-inducing stimuli on cognitive functioning of college students. In order to investigate this‚ a 2 (audio timer) x 2 (visual timer) factorial ANOVA was performed. The participants’ scores were based on how many anagrams they completed correctly. The scores of each participant were hand counted for every group. The means for each condition are shown in Figure 1. As hypothesized a significant main effect for the audio timer was found (F (1‚
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Super Size Me In 2004‚ documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock began an experiment to see how eating only McDonald’s‚ three meals a day‚ would effect a person’s health; physical and mental. The fact that our generation eats more fast food than ever before makes this experiment interesting‚ along with Morgan’s antics and humor. The main claim behind this documentary film is that the abundance of fast food chains‚ the fatty foods that they serve‚ and the vast amount of people that eat at these restaurants
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Stratified and Cluster sampling • Nonprobability samples do not allow all members of the sampling frame an equal opportunity of selection. Nonprobability samples include Convenience‚ Judgment‚ Quota and Snowball sampling. 5. Determine sample size (subject of Chapter 13) 6. Develop operational procedures for extracting sample from the population (logic and controls) 7. Executed the operational plan Sampling error. Random sampling error always exists. Administrative errors are
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