Which research question will indicate to the nurse researcher that an ethnographic approach was used in the research study?
a. In what ways do Puerto Rican women learn about health information?
b. What is the quality of life for persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)?
c. What was Nightingale's involvement in sanitary reforms during the 1860s?
d. How do individuals who have heart disease experience anger?
ANS: A
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A Ethnographic studies address questions that concern how cultural knowledge, norms, values, and other contextual variables influence a person's health experience.
B Quality of life is a day-to-day experience, more consistent with phenomenology than ethnography.
C An examination of Nightingale would be a historical study.
D The experience of anger is consistent with a phenomenologic approach.
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