Nurses’ Perceptions of Barriers and Facilitators to Implement EBP in the Maldives

Table 2

BARRIER Scale items.

BARRIER Scale items	Mean	Standard deviation	Moderate or great barriers (%)	No opinion or nonresponse (%)
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