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Iranian nurses' attitudes toward research utilisation

Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran, Iran, mehrdadn{at}sina.tums.ac.ir

Mahvash Salsali

Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran, Iran

Anooshiravan Kazemnejad

Tarbiat Modarress University Tehran, Iran

Research utilisation poses significant challenges for the nursing profession in Iran. Nurses' attitudes toward research and their motivation to engage in research utilisation have repeatedly been identified as potential barriers. Yet little is known about the attitudes of Iranian nurses' regarding research. Therefore, there is a need for a study that focuses particularly on Iranian nurses' attitudes toward research utilisation. The objective was to assess the attitude of Iranian clinical nurses and nurse educators towards nursing research. A self-administered questionnaire based on a cross-sectional survey conducted on 410 respondents from 15 educational hospitals and nursing schools affiliated to Tehran Medical Sciences University, Iran. According to the self-report, nurses generally held positive attitudes toward research. Education, professional role and research activities had a statistically significant relationship with their research attitudes. Although the attitudes towards research were positive, they do not perceive that research is relevant to the day-to-day work of nursing and research is not applicable to nursing as well. The majority of nurses are still not convinced of the importance of research to nursing practice and to the nursing profession. This, in turn, means that nurses do not implement research findings in clinical practice. There is an immediate need to improve research training in our teaching hospital to facilitate the development of the local literature both in terms of research utilisation and production.

Key Words: research utilization • attitude • nursing

Journal of Research in Nursing, Vol. 13, No. 1, 53-65 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1744987107083683


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