What Will a Nurse Researcher Find to Be the Differences

question 10

Multiple Choice

What will a nurse researcher find to be the differences in ethnographic and phenomenologic studies? (Select all that apply.)

• A) Ethnographic studies include both qualitative and quantitative data, whereas phenomenologic studies employ only qualitative methods of data collection.
• B) Ethnographic research makes extensive use of case studies, whereas phenomenologic research relies more on questionnaires that include multiple-choice options.
• C) Phenomenologic research focuses on the meaning of an event or experience to an individual or group of people, and ethnographic research focuses on patterns of behavior of people within a culture.
• D) Phenomenologic research requires that data be collected face to face over an extended period and occur in the person's natural setting; ethnographic studies can occur with the researcher and the participant in any setting.

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