TABLE 3.
Research facilitators and barriers reported by participants.
| Facilitator or barrier item† | All respondents |
Trainees |
Graduates |
p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| I have access to research mentorship | 0.280 | ||||||
| Disagree | 35 | 45.5 | 24 | 49.0 | 11 | 39.3 | |
| Agree | 42 | 54.6 | 25 | 51.0 | 17 | 60.7 | |
| I have access to electronic databases I need to conduct a literature search | 0.137 | ||||||
| Disagree | 18 | 23.4 | 9 | 18.4 | 9 | 32.1 | |
| Agree | 59 | 76.6 | 40 | 81.6 | 19 | 67.9 | |
| I have access to software to help me collect, manage and/or analyse research data ‡ | 0.472 | ||||||
| Disagree | 32 | 42.7 | 19 | 39.6 | 13 | 48.2 | |
| Agree | 43 | 57.3 | 29 | 60.4 | 14 | 51.9 | |
| My employer or supervisor provides me with an adequate amount of time to conduct research§ | 0.509 | ||||||
| Disagree | 53 | 69.7 | 33 | 68.8 | 20 | 71.4 | |
| Agree | 23 | 33.3 | 15 | 31.3 | 8 | 28.6 | |
| I have access to a research ethics committee or institutional review board (IRB) | 0.605 | ||||||
| Disagree | 14 | 18.2 | 9 | 18.4 | 5 | 17.9 | |
| Agree | 63 | 81.8 | 40 | 81.6 | 23 | 82.1 | |
| I am confident in developing a research protocol | 0.248 | ||||||
| Disagree | 30 | 39.0 | 21 | 42.9 | 9 | 32.1 | |
| Agree | 47 | 61.0 | 28 | 57.1 | 19 | 67.9 | |
| I am confident in performing a literature search | 0.165 | ||||||
| Disagree | 14 | 18.2 | 11 | 22.5 | 3 | 10.7 | |
| Agree | 63 | 81.8 | 38 | 77.6 | 25 | 89.3 | |
| I am confident in conducting qualitative data analysis | 0.170 | ||||||
| Disagree | 48 | 62.3 | 33 | 15 | 53.6 | ||
| Agree | 29 | 37.7 | 16 | 13 | 46.4 | ||
| I am confident in conducting quantitative data analysis | 0.145 | ||||||
| Disagree | 35 | 45.5 | 25 | 10 | 35.7 | ||
| Agree | 42 | 54.6 | 24 | 18 | 64.3 | ||
| Research is undertaken by other health workers where I work§ | 0.125 | ||||||
| Disagree | 20 | 26.3 | 10 | 20.8 | 10 | 35.7 | |
| Agree | 56 | 73.7 | 38 | 79.2 | 18 | 64.3 | |
Note: The table shows the number and proportion of respondents ranking each statement as a facilitator (agree) versus barrier (disagree). It shows the results of the exploratory analysis comparing these same facilitator and barrier rankings amongst trainees and graduates, with p-values calculated using Fisher’s exact test.
†
, Disagree is the combination of ‘strongly disagree’ and ‘disagree’ or ‘neither agree nor disagree’, whereas ‘agree’ is the combination of ‘strongly agree’ and ‘agree’.
‡
, n = 75,
§
, n = 76 (n is less than 77).