Question

how about a Nursing Theory to use for the quantitative research for patient portal use for elderly diabetics

Answer 1

Quantitative research is based on the need for “precise measurement, replicability, prediction, and control”

Experiments in health care are usually referred to as clinical trials . They can be designed in a variety of ways and the most well known are randomised controlled trials (RCTs), cluster RCTs, pilot RCTs, explanatory and pragmatic trials, crossover trials, and pre- and post- intervention trials.

Descriptive research provides a completely contrasting quantitative design to that of experiments and is often used to provide a knowledge base . This information may be useful in its own right or may be the preliminary phase of an experiment or in a correlational study to explore relationships between the described variables

Descriptive research designs are usually in the form of surveys or observations and may be conducted at one time point (cross-sectional) or over time (longitudinal).

Data gathering may be by database analysis, questionnaire, interview or by a combination of methods.