Deck 6: Culturally Competent Research

Question 1

Culturally competent research 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 the above.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

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.
E)a and c.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following statements is/are true about whether research is culturally competent?

A) It does NOT influence how statistical findings are interpreted
B) If Not culturally competent, it risks having a harmful effect on the minority community.
C)It is NOT related to whether childcare is provided to research participants.
D)It has NO bearing on the selection of sampling procedures.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

There is no foolproof recipe for ensuring that your research will be culturally competent in all respects.

Question 5

The best time to read about the culture of a population you seek to research is after you design your investigation.

Question 6

It is not always easy to define who qualifies as a member of a specific ethnic minority group.

Question 7

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

Question 8

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 9

Ethnocentrism is the belief in the superiority of your own culture.

Question 10

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

Question 11

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 12

Which of the following statements is/are 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.
E)All of the above are true.

Question 13

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 endorsemenor your study from community leaders.
D) avoid the use of community members as research staff.

Question 14

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 U.S.city located on the Texas-Mexico border.

Question 15

No ethnic minority group is homogeneous.

Question 16

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

Question 17

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 18

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 19

Sampling with hidden and oppressed populations:

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

Question 20

The degree of acculturation might influence which term minority group participants prefer to label their ethnicity.

Question 21

Explain the difference between linguistic,conceptual and metric equivalence.

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.