N298 – Statistical Method Applied in Nursing, 2nd Semester, AY 2014-2015 Worksheet 12

Worksheet 12 (Worksheet 12)

T Tests: Measuring the Differences between Group Means

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I. Run the data for ANOVA using either PSSP Open Source or IBM SPSS
a. Please see excel file with file name N298 Practice Data inside data folder in
our course site. You can open the file. This is the same data set we used in
Module 12.
You will answer this research question in this worksheet . Is there a
significant difference among participants of different educational level on
Patient’s Illness Perception ( as measured by Brief Illness Perception ) ?

b. Run the data for ANOVA using either PSSP Open Source or IBM SPSS
c. Interpret the computer output.
d. Write the output.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/672/06/

** You can refer to file name TTest and ANOVA_notesRCR

** Anwerkey will be posted at the end of the week (step by step procedure and
outputs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYn5Jv7Gh4s

II. Reading of published article using t test

Read the article of Karajan (2011) entitled “Nurses’ perceptions of online continuing
education”.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/11/86
Kindly pay attention to the section theoretical background of the study in
which this covers the five research questions.
1. What are the perception levels of nurses of online continuing education?

2. Are there any differences in perception of online continuing education

between nurses who use computers more frequently and nurses who use
computers less frequently?**

3. Is there any relationship between age and perception of online continuing

education?

4. Are there any differences between area groups (rural-urban) in terms of

perception on online continuing education? **

5. Are there any differences in terms of perception of online continuing

education between nurses who work in different setting?

Read the data analysis part.

Things to ponder :
Rita Cui Ramos RN, MAN
N298 – Statistical Method Applied in Nursing, 2nd Semester, AY 2014-2015 Worksheet 12

 Can you identify the independent variable and dependent variable?

 Can you look at how level of perception of nurses were measured? Is it

nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio?

Are the two research questions number 5 be answered by ANOVA?

Kindly post your answers to our discussion forum for Module 13

Rita Cui Ramos RN, MAN