Deck 6: Culturally Competent Research

Question 1

Which of the following is a method for tracking and contacting hidden and oppressed populations to retain their ongoing participation in longitudinal research studies include:

A) Identify as many anchor points as possible.
B) Make repeated reminder calls to anchor points in advance of scheduled sessions.
C) Use mail tracking.
D) Ask service providers or other community agencies whether they have been in recent contact with participants whom you are unable to locate.
E) Talk with people on the streets about where to find particular participants f. All of these.

Answer 1

F

Question 2

Which of the following statements is true about measurement equivalence?

A) Linguistic equivalence ensures conceptual equivalence.
B) Linguistic equivalence is necessary for conceptual equivalence.
C) Conceptual equivalence ensures metric equivalence.
D) Metric equivalence is necessary for conceptual equivalence.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Compensation for participants in research should

A) be as large as your budget permits.
B) be large enough to provide an incentive yet not so large that it becomes coercive.
C) always be in the form of money.
D) never be in the form of money.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Using anonymous enrollment procedures can enhance efforts to recruit research participants from stigmatized populations.

Question 5

Sampling with hidden and oppressed populations:

A) almost always should involve probability sampling methods.
B) should avoid using the researcher's judgment about finding potential participants.
C) often must utilize the snowball sampling method.
D) never should combine probability and non-probability sampling methods.

Question 6

Recruitment of minority and oppressed populations in research studies can be enhanced by:

A) providing transportation to the research site.
B) conducting research activities in participants' homes.
C) providing childcare for young children
D) all of these.

Question 7

Culturally insensitive research can

A) produce misleading results.
B) poison the climate for future research among a particular population.
C) have a harmful financial impact on a minority community.
D) all of these.

Question 8

The best time to read about the culture of a population you seek to research is after you have formulated your research question.

Question 9

Studies that do NOT include adequate representation from specific minority and oppressed populations in their samples are NOT generalizable to those populations.

Question 10

Recruitment of minority and oppressed populations in research studies can be enhanced by:

A) obtaining endorsement from community leaders.
B) avoiding the use of local community members as research staff.
C) using probability sampling techniques instead of nonprobability techniques
D) refusing to use anchor points.

Question 11

If research participants from two different cultures have the same average score on a scale measuring caregiver burden,that means that the two groups of participants subjectively perceive the same degree of caregiver burden.

Question 12

Which of the following has been recommended to enhance the cultural competence of interviews:

A) use interviewers who are of the same ethnicity as the members of the minority population whom you seek to interview.
B) use interviewers who have had adequate previous experience or training in working with members of the target population.
C) use bilingual interviewers
D) use role playing in training interviewers
E) all of these

Question 13

Latinos who recently immigrated to the United States are likely to have the same level of acculturation as Latinos whose parents or grandparents have lived in the United States for several decades or longer

Question 14

Culturally competent research involves awareness of the ways in which cultural factors could influence

A) what we investigate.
B) how we investigate.
C) how we interpret our findings.
D) all of these.

Question 15

Culturally competent problem formulation involves

A) being well read in the culture of concern before beginning any investigation in it.
B) being ethnocentric.
C) making broad generalizations about the culture as a whole.
D) all of these.

Question 16

Which of the following statements is true about culturally competent interviewing?

A) All interviewers must be of the same ethnicity as the respondent.
B) Although matching interviewer and interviewee ethnicity is not a foolproof guarantee that an interview will be culturally competent, it is a good rule of thumb to follow whenever possible.
C) Interviewers should NOT be of the same ethnicity as the respondent.
D) Avoiding cultural bias is ensured if interviewer speaks the respondent's language.

Question 17

Which of the following statements is true about sampling with populations that are oppressed,hidden and/or stigmatized?

A) Assuring prospective participants anonymity may help to secure their willingness to engage in a study.
B) Snowball sampling or purposive sampling may be necessary.
C) Disproportionate stratified sampling may be necessary to ensure that enough cases of certain minority groups are selected to allow for subgroup comparisons.
D) All of these.

Question 18

Acculturation occurs when a group or individual changes after coming into contact with a majority culture by taking on the _____ of the majority:

A) language.
B) values.
C) lifestyle preferences.
D) all of these.

Question 19

A good way to ensure that your data analysis is culturally competent is to combine all minority groups together as one category to compare to the majority group in the data analysis.

Question 20

When recruiting minority and oppressed populations in research studies,you should

A) use exactly the same informed consent procedures as with the majority population.
B) use the same types of advertisements or referral sources as with the majority population.
C) obtain endorsement for your study from community leaders.
D) avoid the use of community members as research staff.

Question 21

Describe the steps you would take to maximize the recruitment and retention of recently immigrated substance abusing Mexican American youths and their parents in a longitudinal evaluation of the effectiveness of a family-oriented substance program in Laredo (a US city located on the Texas-Mexico border).

Question 22

Describe the steps you would take to maximize the measurement equivalence of a study that compares the degree of caregiver burden among White,African American,Hispanic,and Asian American caregivers for relatives with Alzheimer's Disease.

Question 23

Linguistic equivalence ensures conceptual equivalence.

Question 24

Conceptual equivalence ensures metric equivalence.

Question 25

Cultural competence should NOT affect how research findings are interpreted.

Question 26

Describe the steps you would take to maximize the cultural competence of your problem formulation in studying a social problem among a Native American tribe living on a reservation.

Question 27

Explain the difference between linguistic,conceptual and metric equivalence.

Question 28

Provide an example where degree of acculturation should be included as one of the variables in a study of a minority culture.