In a study to examine the effects of a newly modified anxiety-reducing nursing action on a group of subjects who have cancer,the control group will receive
A) an alternative intervention.
B) no intervention.
C) the newly modified intervention.
D) the standard intervention.

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In many nursing studies,offering no intervention (when one exists)to subjects in the control group is considered unethical.Subjects in this group generally receive the standard intervention as a comparison to those in the treatment group.An alternative intervention would invite comparison,but if it is new,it would also be experimental.Offering no intervention is often unethical.Giving the newly modified intervention would not create a difference between the treatment and the control groups.

In a Study to Examine the Effects of a Newly