Research & Evidence-Based Medicine

20 learning units • 100 chapter sections • 200 explained questions. Build a question, judge the evidence and connect the answer with the person receiving care.

Original RAHBAR study material for the Year 3 learning pathway. Educational examples support supervised learning; institutional research and clinical requirements still apply. References & further reading ↓

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Qualitative & Mixed-Methods Research

Understand experiences and implementation barriers while respecting the distinct methods used to study them.

Answer all 10 questions, then submit to see your score and explanations. This is a self-study exercise; results are not saved.

Question 01. Which question is best suited to qualitative research? A. What is the exact national incidence rate?B. What is the risk ratio in a randomised trial?C. How do patients experience stigma during treatment?D. What is the test’s numerical specificity?

Question 02. What is purposive sampling? A. Drawing every participant by a random number generatorB. Assigning treatment by chanceC. Selecting participants for relevant informative experiencesD. Selecting only significant numerical results

Question 03. What does reflexivity address? A. How the researcher’s position and assumptions influence the workB. Only the response rateC. Only the test sensitivityD. Elimination of every human interpretation

Question 04. What is a limitation of focus groups for sensitive topics? A. They guarantee anonymous disclosure to the groupB. Participants may be reluctant to disclose in front of othersC. They always estimate prevalenceD. They remove all social influence

Question 05. Why include quotations in a qualitative report? A. To replace all analysisB. To calculate disease incidence directlyC. To illustrate and support interpretationsD. To prove every participant agreed

Question 06. What supports transferability? A. Detailed description of participants and contextB. Claiming every setting is identicalC. Omitting recruitment detailsD. Reporting only a p-value

Question 07. What makes a project genuinely mixed methods? A. Merely adding an unrelated quotation to a tableB. Using two statistical software packagesC. Purposeful integration of quantitative and qualitative componentsD. Asking two numerical questions

Question 08. How should contradictory interview and survey findings be handled? A. Hide the less convenient findingsB. Explore differences in context, sampling and measurementC. Assume interviews are always wrongD. Average words and percentages mechanically

Question 09. Why examine cases that challenge an emerging explanation? A. To refine or question the interpretationB. To delete inconvenient participantsC. To guarantee unanimous responsesD. To force a smaller confidence interval

Question 10. Why is sample size judged differently in qualitative work? A. Any single interview proves a universal ruleB. Numerical sample size is always irrelevant to planningC. All qualitative studies require exactly 100 peopleD. Adequacy depends on the question, approach and information depth

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References & Further Reading

Use the full methods and relevant chapters when appraising a paper. These sources support further study; the examples and questions above are original teaching exercises.

Reference review: 25 September 2026. Consult current institutional guidance for project approval and clinical decisions.