Which research technique would be used by a nurse researcher who wishes to compare bonding patterns of neonatal intensive care (NIC) infants to non-NIC infants to test various theories about infant-parent bonding?
a. Experimental
b. Exploratory
c. Grounded-theory
d. Quasi-experimental
ANS: C
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