. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 31.

Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Oct 31;70(18):2290–2303. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.09.030

Table-4.

Factors that correlated with increasing amount of external grant funding

Factor	US NIH Total 2013	US NIH Total 2016	All Total 2013	All Total 2016
[Motivation] Physicians need to lead or be a part of healthcare research	+↑	+↑	+↑	+↑
[Home Institution] My home institution provides me with sufficient bridge funding/intermediary support to launch my career.	+↑	+↑	—	+↑
[Home Institution] My home institution possesses sufficient resources (e.g. core facilities, expertise, databases…) to support my research.	+↑	+↑	+↑	+↑
[Collaborators] Necessary connections to collaborators are readily available.	+↑	+↑	+↑	+↑
[Mentoring] Onsite mentoring provides excellent guidance.	+↑	—	+↑	—
[Home Institution] My home institution values my academic pursuits.	+↑	+↑	+↑	+↑
[Experience] Funding in support of academic endeavors has been unstable with external grants and/or internal institutional support.	—	+↑	—	+↑
[Experience] Complying with regulatory bodies is burdensome.	—	+↑	—	+↑

Spearman Correlation was done between responses to challenges-resources factors (responses:1–5; 1:strongly disagree; 5:strongly agree) vs. obtained total grant amount by ranges (0, $1–99K, $100K-249K, $250–499K, ≥$500K).

Inline graphic +↑ denotes positive correlation with p<0.05.

Inline graphic — denotes no correlation. Mentoring changed from being a positive correlation factor for US members to obtain NIH grants to be non-contributory (2013: r=0.236, p=0.001; 2016: r=0.081, p=0.103). Mentoring changed from being a positive correlation factor for all members for all grants to be non-contributory (2013: r=0.241, p=0.001; 2016: r=0.070, p=0.115).