The nurse researcher wants to avoid bias stemming from participants' awareness of group status or study hypotheses. What is this called?
1) Attention control
2) Stratification
3) Masking
4) Blinding

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Masking and blinding are strategies used to prevent bias in research by keeping participants, and sometimes researchers, unaware of group assignments or the specific hypotheses being tested. This helps ensure that the outcomes are not influenced by participants' or researchers' expectations or behaviors.

The Nurse Researcher Wants to Avoid Bias Stemming from Participants