A Patient Describes Feelings of Anxiety and Fear When Speaking

question 2

Multiple Choice

A patient describes feelings of anxiety and fear when speaking in front of an audience and is having difficulty at work because of an inability to present information at meetings three or four times each year. The patient is reluctant to take long-term medications. The nurse will expect the provider to order which treatment?

• A) Alprazolam [Xanax] as needed
• B) Cognitive behavioral therapy
• C) Paroxetine [Paxil]
• D) Psychotherapy

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Definitions:

Skewed to the Right

A description of a distribution of data where the right tail (higher values) is longer than the left tail, indicating a concentration of lower values.

Critical Region

The critical region is a set of values for which the null hypothesis is rejected in hypothesis testing; it specifies the threshold at which the observed results are deemed statistically significant.

Multinomial Distribution

A statistical distribution that generalizes the binomial distribution for variables that can take on more than two categories.

Proportions

A statistical measure that describes the size of a part in relation to the whole, often expressed as a fraction or percentage.