A black box refers to the underlying, unmeasured causes or mediators of the observed effects of an intervention, indicating factors or processes that are not directly observed or understood but are responsible for the outcomes of interest.

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What Is a Black Box

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What is a black box?

A) Concerned with the development,validation, and assessment of methodologic tools or strategies
B) Designed to obtain information about the prevalence, distribution, and interrelations of phenomena within a population
C) Constructs of interest to nurse researchers that have defied measurement efforts
D) The underlying, unmeasured causes or mediators of the observed effects of an intervention

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