Assignment task: Use the information that you have gained from your critique of the study to discuss the trustworthiness and applicability of the study. Include in your discussion any implications for the discipline of nurses.
Discuss what you understand by the term Quantitative Research - Use the following dot points to guide your discussion (give reasons for your argument and support with references):
1. Describe the characteristics of quantitative research.
2. Identify nursing issues/phenomena that lend themselves to a quantitative research approach.
3. Differentiate between observational and interventional research designs and also between experimental and quasi-experimental designs.
4. Briefly, outline the difference between inferential and descriptive statistics and their relationship to levels of measurement.
5. Communicate how this research design used in research.