Angelo has just completed a project on understanding the relationship among age and outcomes for
depressed clients. The findings were that age was inversely associated with outcomes.
The findings
had implications for the behavioral health center because the research was a census study. What is a
census study?
a) Every person in the community is included
b) The research happens intermittently, generally every ten years
c) Every depressed client in the agency is included
d) Sampling is random
Melissa wants to compare school attendance among black, Hispanic, and white students. She is a
social worker within a public school system and wants to explain if attendance is related to race.
She
plans on randomly selecting research participants from each subgroup and then will make
comparisons by race. What type of sampling is she using?
a) Random sampling
b) Cluster sampling
c) Systematic sampling
d) Stratified sampling
Social work research has many safeguards in place to ensure that studies are ethical, and that research
participants are protected. Hopefully, social work researchers would implicitly protect research
participants from any unduly amount of harm.
A 1996 law helps protect research participants by
mandating that individually identifiable health information is not released without permission. What
is the acronym of this law?
a) ADA
b) NASW
c) CSWE
d) HIPAA
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