What category or type of research is suggested by the following resear

What category or type of research is suggested by the following research question? “Does telephone follow-up by nurses improve patients’ compliance with their medication regimens?”

a. Applied
b. Basic
c. Phenomenological
d. Quality assurance

ESSAYBID ANSWER

ANS: A
Applied research involves research that is directly applicable to clinical practice.
Basic research is scientific investigation that involves the pursuit of “knowledge for knowledge’s sake.”
Phenomenological research studies the lived experience of individuals’ specific response to a given situation.
Quality assurance does not involve an effort to make results useful to other locations and/or situations.