The qualitative nurse researcher is expected to maintain which level of privacy to protect the participants in the study?

1. Confidentiality.
2. Anonymity.
3. Partial privacy.
4. There is no possibility of privacy in a qualitative study.


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Rationale 1: The researcher will be aware of the identity of the study participants and will be able to link data with those participants since much of the work is done by interview. The researcher must be very careful to maintain confidentiality.
Rationale 2: Anonymity cannot be maintained because the researcher who has conducted personal interviews will know how the participants responded.
Rationale 3: Levels of privacy in nursing research are confidentiality and anonymity.
Rationale 4: The researcher must be very careful to maintain confidentiality.

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