The nursing student asks, "What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative clinical questions?" What is the nurse's best response?
a. "Qualitative questions utilize a strict sta-tistical analysis of information."
b. "Quantitative questions identify relation-ships between measurable concepts."
c. "Qualitative questions ask about associa-tions among defined phenomena."
d. "Quantitative questions analyze the con-tent of what a person says or does."
B
Quantitative questions ask about the relationship between or among defined, measurable pheno-mena and include statistical analysis of information that is collected to answer a question. Qua-litative questions focus on the meanings and interpretations of human phenomena or experiences of people and usually analyze the content of what a person says during an interview or what a researcher observes.
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