A Nurse Researcher Would Choose to Use a Correlational Study

question 6

Multiple Choice

A nurse researcher would choose to use a correlational study of multiple variables for which purpose?

• A) To identify the independent variable
• B) To test whether one variable causes another variable
• C) To examine relationships between or among variables
• D) To distinguish how different one variable is from another variable

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