Table 5.
Frequency of reported team barriers to undertaking research and correlation with research activity
| Team barrier | % frequency of participants reporting team barrier | Correlation analyses with research activity | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team 1 | Team 2 | Team 3 | Team 4 | Team 5 | Team 6 | Team 7 | Team 8 | |||||||
| (n = 7) | (n = 15) | (n = 14) | (n = 15) | (n = 10) | (n = 15) | (n = 9) | (n = 10) | Journal ratio | Funding ratio | No. projects | ||||
| rτ = | p= | rτ = | p= | rτ = | p= | |||||||||
| Lack of time for research | 71 | 93 | 100 | 93 | 90 | 93 | 89 | 80 | -.372 | .364 | -.149 | .725 | -.184 | .663 |
| Clinical backfill | 57 | 67 | 86 | 53 | 80 | 60 | 55 | 70 | -.209 | .619 | -.278 | .504 | -.337 | .414 |
| Other work roles take priority | 100 | 80 | 93 | 67 | 90 | 67 | 78 | 60 | -.524 | .182 | -.482 | .227 | -.129 | .761 |
| Lack of funds | 86 | 47 | 64 | 73 | 30 | 53 | 67 | 50 | -.034 | .937 | -.067 | .875 | -.405 | .319 |
| Lack of admin support | 57 | 67 | 64 | 40 | 50 | 73 | 33 | 50 | -.412 | .310 | -.587 | .126 | .-562 | .147 |
| Staff shortage | 43 | 53 | 57 | 47 | 80 | 60 | 33 | 90 | .198 | .168 | -.057 | .893 | -.422 | .298 |