Nurse researchers hypothesized that the use of therapeutic t

Nurse researchers hypothesized that the use of therapeutic touch would reduce anxiety levels in pre-op hip replacement patients. The null hypothesis would be:

Therapeutic touch reduces anxiety levels in pre-op hip replacement patients.

Therapeutic touch does not reduce anxiety levels in pre-op hip replacement patients.

Therapeutic touch reduces 25% of anxiety levels in pre-op hip replacement patients.

Some other therapy reduces anxiety levels in pre-op hip replacement patients.

Solution

The claim which we make is generally put in the alternate hypothesis and the negation of that is put in the Null hypothesis.

So, the Alternate hypothesis would be - \"Therapeutic touch reduces anxiety levels in pre-op hip replacement patients\".

Hence the null hypothesis will be - \"Therapeutic touch does not reduce anxiety levels in pre-op hip replacement patients\".