Using knowledge brokers to facilitate the uptake of pediatric measurement tools into clinical practice: a before-after intervention study

Table 8 Descriptive statistics of organizational characteristics as perceived by individual physical therapists at baseline (n = 122)

			Factor Loadings
Organizational characteristics: survey items ^a	Mean (SD) ^b	Median	Resources	Culture	Supervisor
I have access to someone within my organization who can help me to interpret or utilize research evidence	6.1 (2.9)	6	0.62	0.34	nil
My organization supports and/or provides ongoing training in the use of standardized measures	6.1 (2.6)	7	0.76	0.21	0.19
Mechanisms exist in my organization that facilitate the transfer of research evidence into my organization	5.2 (2.6)	5	0.85	0.29	0.21
Overall my organization provides adequate resources (financial or personnel) to implement decisions that are based on research evidence	5.0 (2.4)	5	0.78	0.34	0.26
I frequently hear the terms 'research' or 'research evidence' during policy or program planning discussions within my organization	6.2 (2.4)	7	0.31	0.82	0.23
Overall the culture in my organization is one that highly values the use of research evidence in decision-making for program planning	6.6 (2.5)	7	0.37	0.79	0.29
Research evidence is consistently included in the decision-making process related to program planning in my organization	5.5 (2.3)	6	0.41	0.71	0.41
My direct supervisor expects me to include research evidence in decision-making related to program planning	5.5 (2.6)	6	0.28	0.50	0.83
At my organization, resistance to change is a barrier to using research evidence	3.4 (2.5)	3	removed

^a Items were scored on a 10-point scale from 1 = 'not at all' to 10 = 'to a great extent'
^b Standard deviation of the mean
Factor analysis produced a 3-factor solution explaining 72% of the variance. The final question re: organizational resistance to change was a noisy item with an unexplained variance of 82% and was dropped from the model.

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