Quantitative Research Methods I

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This foundational course introduces basic concepts of research design and statistics essential to quantitative investigation, with a special emphasis on research targeting primary health care, cultural competence, and evidence-based practice within the nursing discipline. Students will critically appraise published research articles, evaluating various design strategies (e.g., descriptive, quasi-experimental, and experimental) in relation to research aims, hypotheses or research questions, procedure and data collection, measurement, inference, and cultural congruence with population and topic studied. Statistical focus targets univariate and bivariate descriptive methods, including I-test, simple regression, chi-squared text, Analysis of variance (ANOVA), and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) with hands-on application via statistical computing software packages. Power analysis and sample size calculations are also incorporated