Why Would a Nurse Researcher Choose to Use a Correlational

question 21

Multiple Choice

Why would a nurse researcher choose to use a correlational design for a nonexperimental study?

• A) It represents an efficient and effective method of collecting a large amount of data about a problem.
• B) Many questionnaires and instruments are already developed and have been determined to be valid and reliable.
• C) Generalizability is greater than for results of studies using experimental designs.
• D) It allows flexibility in the manipulation of more than one variable.

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