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Table 5.

Five lowest-rated items of clinical teachers' abilities from three groups.

Rank	Items	Affiliated subscale	Score
MNS postgraduates
	Being able to use basic statistical software such as SPSS statistical software	Clinical research ability	4.39 $\pm$ 0.65
	Being able to apply scientific research into clinical practice and promoting the improvement of care service quality	Clinical research ability	4.35 $\pm$ 0.66
	Generally understanding English literatures and proficiency in writing English abstracts of research papers	Clinical research ability	4.21 $\pm$ 0.69
	Being able to carry out project declaration and research independently	Clinical research ability	4.13 $\pm$ 0.79
	Being able to guide MNS postgraduates in clinical research	Clinical research ability	4.06 $\pm$ 0.75
Clinical teachers
	Being able to analyze and judge the data based on the statistical results	Clinical research ability	4.41 $\pm$ 0.63
	Being able to use basic statistical software such as SPSS	Clinical research ability	4.39 $\pm$ 0.67
	Being able to guide MNS postgraduates in clinical research	Clinical research ability	4.34 $\pm$ 0.67
	Generally understanding English literatures and proficiency in writing English abstracts of research papers	Clinical research ability	4.27 $\pm$ 0.68
	Being able to carry out project declaration and research independently	Clinical research ability	4.25 $\pm$ 0.68
Head nurses
	Being able to analyze and judge the data based on the statistical results	Clinical research ability	4.59 $\pm$ 0.50
	Being able to guide MNS postgraduates in clinical research	Clinical research ability	4.59 $\pm$ 0.52
	Being able to use basic statistical software such as SPSS	Clinical research ability	4.55 $\pm$ 0.55
	Being able to carry out project declaration and research independently	Clinical research ability	4.46 $\pm$ 0.64
	Generally understanding English literatures and proficiency in writing English abstracts of research papers	Clinical research ability	4.45 $\pm$ 0.57

Values are expressed as means of three replicates with standard deviations (Mean ± SD).