Scholarship Flashcards

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What does research lead to?

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  • leadership
  • strong ethics/ awareness of legalities
  • business considerations
  • credentialing and life long learning
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Ethical Perspective of EBP

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  • beneficence= provide best care. Need to discern reliable studies from those that are less sound
  • professional development= advanced practitioner distinction=life long learning
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Legal Perspective of EBP

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-if practitioner must justify Tx best to have used as well researched technique
Ex. If pt falls during Tx, you have EBP to protect you

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Financial perspective of EBP

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  • reimbursement (insurance)
  • practices supported by research
  • current practice
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Scholarship of Discovery

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Conducting original scientific research

-contributes to the knowledge base of OT

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Scholarship of integration

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Seeking out new insights from existing original research, both within OT and across disciplines, by integrating, interpreting, and synthesizing in a search for new patterns of connection
-contributes to the formation of new perspectives and theories in OT

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Scholarship of application

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Linking theory and practice/ linking academia and service provision
-use of knowledge and insights gained from scholarship of discovery/integration to address societal problems, OT assessments or interventions, or classroom teaching of client’s or OT practitioners in a practical way

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Scholarship of teaching and learning

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Systematic study based on recognition of complementary mature of teaching and learning
-contributes to high quality teaching of OT students and public sharing o knowledge of the profession

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What can the OTA do with research studies?

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  • read research publication
  • understand implication for practice
  • participate in data collection
  • notice trends in interventions
  • raise questions
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Data

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  • info gathered

- analyzed to support/refute hypothesis/theory

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Independent Variable

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  • influences study’s outcome
  • attribute IV: pre-existing characteristic (Ex. gender)
  • active IV: given to participants and is applied (Ex. Intervention)
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Control Group

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Group of participants that don’t receive or have the independent variable

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Dependent variable

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Outcome or change that is expected as a result of the independent variable

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Extraneous/confounding variable hypothesis

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  • variable that is not considered in the study, but has potential influence in the outcome
  • statement supported by educated deduction and reliable info; predicts a relationship between variables or outcome of investigation
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Internal validity

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Dependent variable is a result of the independent variable

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Levels of variable

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  • variations on a a variable’s category

- ex. Hx of a CVA: variable might be Left/Right CVA

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Random selection

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  • increases diversity in your study
  • not based on characteristics
  • no bias
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Reliability

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ability of a measure to achieve the same results over time

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Sample

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Subgroup on the population, randomly selected so it represents the population
-more diverse

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Significance

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Statistically the study results indicate that the independent variable in all likelihood, is related to the dependent variable

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Validity

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Study findings are correct

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Variable

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Participant characteristics

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Researcher ethics

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  • researcher conduct
  • informed consent
  • rights of participants
  • Human Subjects Review Committee/ Internal Review Board:review proposals and represents the agency that participants may be selected from
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Quantitative Research

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  • uses data
  • researcher is personally uninvolved
  • unbiased
  • hypothesis is formed
  • can be consistently applied across time and circumstances
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Quantitative Research steps:

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  1. Hypothesis formed, literature review
  2. Protocol determined
  3. Research proposal reviewed by the appropriate board
  4. Participants selected, informed consent
  5. Study carried out per protocol
  6. Data analyzed
  7. Results are written up
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Quantities Research Types

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  • descriptive studies: seeks to answer ? About a group
  • correlation research:determines the extent to which 2+ phenomena occur
  • experimental research: compares 2+ variable’s at the same time\
  • single subject design: follows one subject over time with repeated measurement of the same variable with and without intervention
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Qualitative Research

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  • explores experiences, the meaning, and interpretation

- evaluates themes that emerge throughout the process

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Qualitative Research Types

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  • ethnographic research
  • phenomenological research: understand and explain true life experiences of people as they understand them
  • grounded theory: develops theory from analysis of gathered data
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Qualitative Research Steps

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  1. Areas of interest determined
  2. Participants selected
  3. Data gathered
  4. Data analysis
  5. establishing trust (validity): prolonged engagement, peer debriefing, member checking, triangulation
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Quantitative vs qualitative

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Quantitative: #’s and can be measured
Qualitative: description and can be observed

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Research article contents

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  • abstract
  • intro
  • lit review
  • methods
  • results
  • discussion
  • references
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P.I.C.O.T

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  • person, problem, pop. Of interest
  • issue or intervention being considered
  • comparison such as an alt intervention
  • outcome that would be impacted by intervention by
  • timeframe