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Research-active nurses' perceptions of the barriers to undertaking research in practice

Southern Derbyshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Claire Hale, BA, RN, RNT

University of Leeds

The aim of the study was to identify how a small group of research-active clinical nurses perceived and overcame the reputed 'barriers' to carrying out research in practice. The nursing literature on research implementation tends to focus on barriers that prevent nurses engaging in research. This study takes a different approach and focuses instead on how some nurses manage to succeed despite the difficulties.

A purposive sample of 12 research-active nurses from one trust was recruited to the study. The small sample was a reflection of the comparatively small number of clinical practitioners involved in research activity. Interviews and rating scales were used to explore the practitioners' attitudes to research in general as well as barriers to research identified through earlier studies. The nurses studied did not consider the commonly perceived barriers to undertaking research to be 'barriers' - some nurses saw them as 'excuses'. The only barriers the nurses acknowledged were staffing, cost and lack of support, but they surmounted these by their determination to carry out their research studies and publish. The study suggests that the main kind of support needed by nurses who want to carry out research is that offered by facilitators, who give them confidence to carry out research and publish their findings.

Key Words: Research participation • Barriers to research • Research-active nurses • Research capacity-building

Nursing Times Research, Vol. 7, No. 5, 363-375 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/136140960200700507


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