بررسی موانع به کارگیری نتایج تحقیقات در بین پرستاران بالینی

Background and purpose: Utilization of evidence-based research can increase the validity and quality of nursing care and nurses’ responsibility. In order to have research based performance by nurses, identifying the barriers to utilization of research findings is essential. This study aimed at recognizing these barriers from clinical nurses’ prospective. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on 313 nurses working in three hospitals of Babol University of Medical Sciences in 2011. In this study a questionnaire containing two sections was used in which first part questioned scientific and professional knowledge of subjects, and the other part was extracted from Funk’s barriers scale. Results: Four dimensions were identified using factor analysis. These were report, research, nursing and organization. Important barriers were insufficient time to study for implementing new ideas, lack of timely and fast publication of research papers, and lack of physicians’ collaborations in implementing the results of nursing researches. These were classified in a different dimension. Some barriers were not included in any dimensions, such as low trust of nurses to research findings, unjustified conclusions drawn from researches, conflicting results, and English publication of most studies. Conclusion: The important finding of this study was that the subjects identified the barriers in nearly all dimensions. According to the first three barriers, authorities should provide nurses with facilities to utilize and implement research findings. Moreover, they should promote educational programs to develop knowledge, skills and positive attitude to research among nurses.