A Researcher Introduces a New Exercise Program in the Psychiatric

question 34

Multiple Choice

A researcher introduces a new exercise program in the psychiatric ward of one hospital and uses the psychiatric ward at another hospital as a no-treatment control group. Before the program begins, the depressed patients in both hospitals are evaluated for their level of depression. After the program is in place for six months, the patients are evaluated again and the researcher compares the before and after scores for the two groups. This research study is classified as ____.

• A) correlational
• B) experimental
• C) quasi-experimental
• D) nonexperimental

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