A guest speaker is addressing a group of practical nursing students. The speaker informs the students that she is actively pursuing a doctoral degree in research and is in the process of collecting and measuring numerical data using statistics to describe variables of this study. The nursing students are aware that this type of study is most likely a
A) quantitative research study.
B) subjective research study.
C) qualitative research study.
D) grounded theory research study.

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A quantitative research study is an objective study in which a variable is the event the researcher is trying to measure. Numerical data is collected and measured using statistics to describe variables, examine relationships among variables, or determine cause and effect interactions between variables. Qualitative research studies are subjective and provide a narrative description of the "lived experience" of individuals. Grounded theory research studies are a type of qualitative research study that describe a process that people use to deal with problem areas of their lives.

A Guest Speaker Is Addressing a Group of Practical Nursing