From: The BARRIERS scale -- the barriers to research utilization scale: A systematic review
Subscale and Item | Range in percentage of nurses rating the item as a moderate to great barrier | Number of studies with > 50% of nurses rating the item as a moderate to great barrier | Number of studies rating the item among the top ten of barriers |
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Nurse Subscale: The nurse's research values, skills and awareness | Â | Â | Â |
The nurse is unaware of the research | 10-77 | 24 | 27 |
The nurse does not feel capable of evaluating the quality of the research | 5-83 | 25 | 25 |
The nurse is isolated from knowledgeable colleagues with whom to discuss the research | 16-89 | 20 | 16 |
The nurse is unwilling to change/try new ideas | 3-59 | 6 | 2 |
The nurse sees little benefit for self | 3-61 | 5 | 2 |
There is not a documented need to change practice | 8-55 | 1 | 2 |
The nurse feels the benefits of changing practice will be minimal | 5-57 | 6 | 1 |
The nurse does not see the value of research for practice | 3-58 | 3 | 0 |
Setting Subscale: Setting barriers and limitations | Â | Â | Â |
There is insufficient time on the job to implement new ideas | 16-89 | 38 | 49 |
The nurse does not have time to read research | 8-88 | 38 | 48 |
The nurse does not feel she/he has enough authority to change patient care procedures | 22-85 | 33 | 43 |
The facilities are inadequate for implementation | 16-88 | 32 | 36 |
Other staff are not supportive of implementation | 13-79 | 29 | 31 |
Physicians will not cooperate with implementation | 11-83 | 26 | 31 |
The nurse feels results are not generalizable to own setting | 6-79 | 23 | 24 |
Administration will not allow implementation | 9-71 | 8 | 7 |
Research Subscale: Qualities of the research | Â | Â | Â |
The research has not been replicated | 4-67 | 12 | 6 |
The literature reports conflicting results | 1-72 | 7 | 5 |
The research has methodological inadequacies | 5-67 | 4 | 5 |
Research reports/articles are not published fast enough | 9-69 | 5 | 4 |
The nurse is uncertain whether to believe the results of the research | 3-55 | 4 | 0 |
The conclusions drawn from the research are not justified | 0-57 | 1 | 0 |
Presentation Subscale: Presentation and accessibility of the research | Â | Â | Â |
The statistical analyses are not understandable | 4-90 | 36 | 40 |
The relevant literature is not compiled in one place | 8-86 | 33 | 37 |
Research reports/articles are not readily available | 23-94 | 19 | 18 |
Implications for practice are not made clear | 10-82 | 19 | 17 |
The research is not reported clearly and readably | 3-83 | 18 | 15 |
The research is not relevant to the nurse's practice | 5-60 | 3 | 0 |
Items not included in any of the subscales | Â | Â | Â |
The amount of research information is overwhelming* (27 articles) | 10-71 | 11 | 13 |
Research reports/articles are written in English** (15 articles) | 18-89 | 6 | 11 |