No correlational study is not cause and effect because correlation does not measure cause.
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Correlational or Experimental or maybe Grounded Theory and possibly even Phenomenology.
You need to set up an experimental study. The variable which is the cause should be randomly assigned and the effect variable is then observed. Other study designs can only tell you that there is a link or correlation, but not necessarily a causal relation.
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A controlled experiment can be used to show a cause and effect relationship. ex: an experiment studying the effect of a certain medicine on patients.
Three basic research designs are experimental, correlational, and quasi-experimental.Experimental designs have random assignment to conditions. Correlational designs define the relationship between two measured values. Quasi-experimental designs have participants grouped on a variable that isn't manipulated.