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Friday, March 23, 2012

Allied health professionals – motivators and barriers to research


An open-access article published this month by Pager, et al is “Motivators, enablers and barriers to building allied health research capacity.” 

Many allied health disciplines are generally considered to have a low evidence base. This study surveyed 85 allied health professionals from 10 healthcare teams to collect data relating to motivators, enablers and barriers to research capacity building. It was found that individual allied health professionals were more likely to report being motivated to do research by intrinsic factors such as a strong interest in research. Barriers identified to research were more likely to be extrinsic factors such as workload and lack of time. Some of the factors influencing individuals to do research were different to those influencing teams.
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare 5: 53-59

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