A descriptive cross sectional survey targeting 139 doctors and 355 nurses from seven hospitals in the same location were selected to describe their knowledge and reported practice of procedural pain in the neonatal infant and their management techniques. Questionnaires were handed out during scheduled staff meetings. The questionnaires included seven procedures and four gestational age categories. There were 8 open-ended questions and 24 fixed choice questions that were used to assess the nurses
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What is the key feature of a cross-sectional study? Present the strengths and weaknesses of the approach. Select two other peers’ postings and debate their rational. Cross sectional study is known for some time being used in a very general sense to help classify‚ (Ridner‚ 2007) all or any study that is not involve any kind of follow up of a research subjects like for instant like there is a study in which a group of subjects are than recruited over a very long amount of time. But is never ever been
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Salma Siddiqui‚(17) conducted a cross sectional study in Al kharj‚ 2001 ‚which included a sample of 634 patients attending the military PHCC‚ it showed that the prevalence of smoking was 34.9%. A cross sectional study conducted by Kelishadi et al‚(18) in 2007 which included 217 non-smoking and 210 smoking youths in Isfahan‚ Iran. The study revealed that the starting age of smoking was 14.5SD ±2.4 years. The study also highlighted that the factors favoring the occurrence of smoking instances
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If I were a psychologist‚ I would use the longitudinal and cross sectional method to study social development from early childhood to adolescence by conducting experiments on groups of kids starting from the ages of 5‚ 10 and 15. Longitudinal research is a research that follows the same group of people for many years. For example‚ if you got a group of 5 year old children and asked them what toys they play with. They are most likely going to say barbies‚ toy cars‚ or legos. However‚ taking the same
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Cross Sectional Management Plan Layla Gullick LeTourneau University MBAC 6163 Dr. Hammond 6/27/2011 Cross Sectional Management Plan Country selected: South Africa Executive Summary South Africa is a democratic state that is located on the southern tip of Africa and it’s bordered by two oceans. South Africa‚ often called the “rainbow country”‚ is a haven of people of different races co-existing together. The capital city is called Pretoria. With the highest population
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further reflected by the quasi-legal force accompanying the code‚ whereby non-compliance results in censure or loss of professional status.2 The significance of professional ethics as a prerequisite for successful dentistry is also supported by the cross-sectional study by Al-Zain et al.‚ where 505 dental students and interns gave it a 4.48±0.46 on a 5-point Likert scale.2 Hence‚ the literature compatibly reveals that ethical conduct forms an imperative component of dental practice‚ serving to benefit patient
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Both naturalistic observations and cross-sectional studies are effective methods of research. In a naturalistic observation‚ the psychologist observes the subject without interfering. In a cross-sectional study‚ “data is collected from groups of participants of different ages and compared so that conclusions can be drawn about differences due to age.” They are similar in the way the data is obtained and they differ in the number of subjects and the usual age and maturity of the subjects. First‚
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October 29‚ 2016 I was competing in the IHSA cross country sectional meet in an effort to advance my team to the state finals which was the following week. I finished the race and was immediately rushed to an urgent care facility where I found out I had pneumonia. The week leading up up to the race I was home sick several days with an upper respiratory infection but knew I had to get back to training in order to support my team as I was the number three runner. Seven days later I raced at the State
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The article “Anthropometric Cross-Sectional Comparisons of College Football Players and Potential Health Implications” focuses on the change in body weight and height of college football players from 1950 to 2010 and looks at the implications an extreme size may have on the health of those football players. The health implications that were viewed included “injury‚ heat stress‚ obesity‚ and general health stress” (Jacobson). The positions focused on were line positions (offensive linemen [OLs]
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Longitudinal Research Studies A basic type of research method in which subjects are tested one or more times after initial testing. Typically‚ subjects are assigned randomly to an experimental group (e.g. a group that performs a specific type of training) and a control group after the initial testing. Both the experimental and the control groups are tested again simultaneously one or more times during the period of the study. In this way‚ the effects of an experimental procedure can be measured
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