A Nurse Researcher Is Planning a Quantitative (Experimental) Research Study

question 27

Multiple Choice

A nurse researcher is planning a quantitative (experimental) research study to test the effect of a new wound product on wound healing. Which of these factors is necessary to implement an experimental pretest-posttest design? (Select all that apply.)

• A) Inclusion of a second control group
• B) Ability to collect pretest data
• C) Use of two posttreatment data collection times
• D) Subjects randomized to the control group only
• E) Random assignment of subjects to treatment and control groups

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