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BARRIER Scale items | Mean | Standard deviation | Moderate or great barriers (%) | No opinion or nonresponse (%) |
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Organisational factors | | | | |
There is insufficient time on the job to implement new ideas | 3.26 | 0.88 | 70.7 | 4.5 |
The nurse does not feel she/he has enough authority to change patient care procedures | 3.11 | 1.04 | 70.2 | 1.5 |
Administration will not allow implementation | 3.17 | 0.98 | 69.2 | 4.0 |
Physicians will not cooperate with implementation | 3.17 | 0.92 | 68.7 | 3.0 |
The nurses does not have time to read research | 3.12 | 1.03 | 65.2 | 2.5 |
The facilities are inadequate for implementation | 3.01 | 1.15 | 61.6 | 3.0 |
Other staff are not supportive of implementation | 2.94 | 0.95 | 61.6 | 5.1 |
The nurse feels results are not generalisable to own setting | 2.46 | 1.22 | 56.1 | 1.5 |
Individual factors | | | | |
The nurse does not feel capable of evaluating the quality of the research | 3.16 | 1.01 | 67.7 | 4.5 |
The nurse sees little benefit for self | 2.50 | 0.97 | 66.2 | 3.0 |
The nurse is unwilling to change/try new ideas | 2.34 | 0.95 | 60.6 | 3.5 |
There is no documented need to change practice | 2.62 | 0.84 | 56.1 | 4.0 |
The nurse feels the benefit of changing practice will be minimal | 2.53 | 1.00 | 54.0 | 14.6 |
The nurse is isolated from knowledgeable colleagues with whom to discuss the research | 2.95 | 0.94 | 52.5 | 25.8 |
The nurse is unaware of the research | 2.64 | 0.98 | 38.4 | 15.7 |
The nurse does not see the value of research for practice | 1.62 | 0.81 | 18.2 | 14.1 |
Communicational factors | | | | |
Statistical analysis is not understandable | 2.85 | 0.35 | 83.3 | 2.5 |
The relevant literature is not compiled in one place | 3.32 | 0.89 | 80.3 | |
Research reports/articles are not readily available | 2.98 | 0.94 | 56.6 | 15.7 |
The research is not relevant to the nurse’s practice | 1.72 | 1.00 | 24.7 | 14.6 |
Implications for practice are not made clear | 1.70 | 0.95 | 21.7 | 16.2 |
The research is not reported clearly and readably | 1.61 | 0.90 | 19.2 | 25.8 |
Quality of research | | | | |
The research has methodological inadequacies | 2.04 | 1.04 | 48.5 | 1.0 |
Research reports/articles are not published fast enough | 2.05 | 1.05 | 45.5 | 3.5 |
The conclusions drawn from the research are not justified | 2.07 | 1.03 | 44.9 | 4.0 |
The nurse is uncertain whether to believe the results of the research | 2.22 | 1.10 | 43.4 | 8.6 |
The research has not been replicated | 1.98 | 1.21 | 33.8 | 14.1 |
The literature reports conflicting results | 1.88 | 1.01 | 37.9 | 10.1 |
Additional item | | | | |
The amount of research information is overwhelming | 2.59 | 0.83 | 41.9 | 5.1 |
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