Generalizing from the Text, Which Is the BEST Strategy for a Health-Care

question 148

Multiple Choice

Generalizing from the text, which is the BEST strategy for a health-care professional to follow with terminally ill patients?

• A) Bring up the topic of dying so that people fully express their emotions.
• B) Take cues from individual people as to whether they want to talk about dying.
• C) Try to get people to move from bargaining to anger, to depression, to acceptance.
• D) Avoid discussing dying and death.

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Definitions:

Single Population

Refers to a group or set of similar items or individuals from which statistical data are gathered for analysis.

Chi-square Distribution

A probability distribution used in statistical significance tests, which is built on the sum of squared standard normal deviates.

Confidence Interval

A variety of numerical values, obtained from statistical analysis of a sample, which probably includes the value of an unseen population characteristic.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, calculated as the square root of the variance.