The nurse researcher decides to conduct a research study on the association between aging male populations and their development of prostate cancer
She uses a sample size from her community of 50 males aged more than 80 years, a quantitative research design, and finds that many of these participants developed cancer after the age of 80 . She reports in her findings: All male patients over the age of 80 years old will most likely develop prostate cancer. Based on the information given above, what is flawed in this research?
a. The problem statement does not provide enough information.
b. Sample size is too small to make a generalization.
c. The research is only valuable to those working with aging males.
d. A quantitative research design is most likely inappropriate for this type of study.
B
The sample size of 50 males in the local community is too small to make the generalization that all males over the age of 80 will develop prostate cancer. The problem statement provides enough information to form an idea of what this study is about. The quantitative research design is appropriate for this type of study as it is the design for gathering data from enough subjects to be able to generalize the results to a similar population. This research is valuable to nurses working with these patients and is valuable to the medical community and healthcare consumers.
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