A research study validates the positive effect that a nursing intervention, patient journaling, has on decreasing spiritual distress during cancer recovery. This would be an example of which type of research evidence?
a. Control
b. Description
c. Explanation
d. Prediction
ANS: A
Control indicates the ability to use a prescribed intervention to produce a desired outcome.
Description involves identifying and understanding the nature of nursing phenomena and the relationships among these phenomena.
Explanation clarifies the relationships among phenomena and identifies why certain events occur.
Through prediction the probability of a specific outcome can be estimated in a given situation.
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