Nursing Research

  1. Discuss the characteristics and requirements that research tools should have on quantitative research to give validity to the study.
  2. Give 2 examples
    The population of interest in this project is school-going adolescent habitual smokers. School-going adolescents are the focus because it is between the age of 12 and 18 that most of them start to engage in smoking and substance abuse.

Method:

Convenience sampling is a non-probability and non-random sampling

  1. Describe why you were to choose a specific method to select a sample over other methods.

a. Defend the method you preferred.