A nurse conducts a study to see whether there are differences in the number of books Latino parents and the number of books African-American parents read to their toddlers each week.Which type of study will this researcher utilize?
A) Comparative descriptive
B) Correlational
C) Cross-sectional
D) Longitudinal

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A comparative descriptive design is used to describe variables and to examine differences in variables in two or more groups that occur naturally in a setting that may have been formed using gender,age,or socioeconomic status.A correlational study design looks at predictive relationships between variables.Cross-sectional designs examine a group of subjects simultaneously in various stages of development,illness severity,or recovery to identify changes in a phenomenon across stages.Longitudinal design refers to data collection from the same subjects at different points in time.

A Nurse Conducts a Study to See Whether There Are