A Child with Hypopituitarism Is Being Started on Growth Hormone

question 31

Multiple Choice

A child with hypopituitarism is being started on growth hormone (GH) therapy.Nursing considerations should be based on which of the following?

• A)Treatment is most successful if it is started during adolescence.
• B)Treatment is considered successful if children attain full stature by adulthood.
• C)Replacement therapy requires daily subcutaneous injections.
• D)Replacement therapy will be required throughout the child's lifetime.

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Definitions:

Significantly Different

A statistical term used to describe a result that is unlikely to have occurred by chance alone, as determined by a predetermined significance level.

ANOVA

Short for Analysis of Variance, a statistical method used to compare means of three or more samples.

Hypothesized Distribution

A theoretical distribution used to make inferences about a population based on sample data.

Acceptance Region

The acceptance region in statistical hypothesis testing is the range of values for which the null hypothesis is not rejected, based on the chosen significance level.