Question

Answer the following parts:

Visual and auditory games study: A researcher wants to know which type of games: 1) visual games, 2) auditory games, or 3) games involving both visual and auditory engagement help the most in delaying cognitive losses in 70 to 80 year-old individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. The participants in the visual stimulation group will be 30 volunteers recruited in Nursing Home A; participants in the auditory stimulation group will be 30 volunteers recruited in Nursing Home B; participants in the combined visual and auditory stimulation group will be 30 volunteers recruited in Nursing Home C. At each of these nursing homes an occupational therapist will facilitate a gaming program that meets 5 times a week intended to engage participants in cognitively stimulating games. Patient’s cognitive function is measured at the beginning of the study and at the end of the six-month study using the Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive.

Part 1) In the visual and auditory games study, which is the independent variable?

a) nursing home

b) games

c) visual and auditory engagement

d) Alzheimer’s disease

e) cognitive function

Part 2 ) What is the best description of the most appropriate research design for this study?

a) pretest-posttest true experimental

b) pretest-posttest quasi-experimental

c) factorial pretest-posttest true experimental design

d) posttest only true experimental

e) posttest only quasi -experimental

Answer 1

part ) In the vfsual and auuditony qames Study, which is the independent Variable 2 La) Nurcing home pant c the best description of t most What appro priate esearch design for this study? pretest Posttert quasi experimental design