The nurse is preparing to do a research study on the effects of tight insulin control for diabetes. Using the knowledge that epidemiologic research can be descriptive or analytical, which would be the strongest study design to consider?
A) Retrospective
B) Quasi-experimental
C) Experimental
D) Randomized, control group
Ans: D
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Analytical research study designs are on a continuum, ranging from strongest to weakest designs. The research continuum indicates that experimental study designs are the strongest because they control for all factors except that which is under study, with the "gold standard" for research design being the randomized, control group design. Two analytical designs, the prospective correlational design and the retrospective correlational design, are "weaker" designs on the continuum. Quasi-experimental study designs are stronger than retrospective studies but weaker than experimental because assignment of subjects into groups is not randomized or the researcher is unable to manipulate the variable under study.
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