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- Title
Nursing Faculty Members' Attitudes and Perceived Barriers toward Conducting Scientific Research: A Descriptive Study from Saudi Arabia.
- Authors
Darawad, Muhammad W.; Alhussami, Mahmoud; Sa'aleek, Mohammad Abu; Al Ateeq, Elham; Samarkandi, Osama A.; Al-Anati, Abdelrahman
- Abstract
Background: Despite changes in the academic arena in Saudi Arabia including the national accreditation that mandates research productivity by university faculty members, no study has investigated nursing faculty members' attitudes towards research and their perceived barriers. Aims: To investigate nursing academicians' attitudes towards, barriers of, and intention to conduct research in a Saudi public university, and to compare Saudi and non-Saudi nursing academicians in terms of study variables. Methods: This study used a quantitative correlational research design utilizing a self-reported questionnaire to collect data from 62 faculty members in a nursing college at a large governmental university in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia. Results: Participants were found to have moderate negative attitudes 1.77/5 (SD=0.70), higher organizational (M=2. 89, SD=1.05) than individual (M=2.32, SD=0.94), and relatively high intention to conduct research (M=3.71, SD=0.88). In general, Non-Saudi participants had more negative attitudes (t= -2.90, df=59.29, p=.005), but barriers were not significantly different. Participants with master degree reported more individual barriers (F=7.06, df=61, p=.002) than participants with bachelor degree, and more organizational barriers (F=10.73, df=61, p=.000) than their counterparts. Attitudes significantly correlated with both individual (r=.399, p=.001) and organizational barriers (r=.436, p=.000). Interestingly, neither participant's attitudes nor their perceived barriers correlated with their intention to conduct research. Discussion: Establishing structured research program that contains research training, research mentorship, time allocated for research, and allocating research fund is highly recommended in Saudi nursing faculties to overcome barriers of conducting research. Clinical Relevance: Nurses in Saudi Arabia are in need for nursing research, which should overcome barriers in order to produce more clinical-relevant knowledge concerning healthcare in Saudi Arabia.
- Subjects
SAUDI Arabia; ANALYSIS of variance; BUDGET; CORPORATE culture; STATISTICAL correlation; EDUCATORS; ETHNIC groups; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; NURSING research; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESOURCE allocation; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SELF-evaluation; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; T-test (Statistics); TIME; OCCUPATIONAL roles; QUANTITATIVE research; EDUCATIONAL attainment; COLLEGE teacher attitudes; DATA analysis software; NURSING school faculty; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
International Journal of Caring Sciences, 2018, Vol 11, Issue 2, p1192
- ISSN
1791-5201
- Publication type
Article