Title |
Factors influencing research engagement: research interest, confidence and experience in an Australian speech-language pathology workforce
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Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, April 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-13-144 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Emma Finch, Petrea Cornwell, Elizabeth C Ward, Steven M McPhail |
Abstract |
Recent initiatives within an Australia public healthcare service have seen a focus on increasing the research capacity of their workforce. One of the key initiatives involves encouraging clinicians to be research generators rather than solely research consumers. As a result, baseline data of current research capacity are essential to determine whether initiatives encouraging clinicians to undertake research have been effective. Speech pathologists have previously been shown to be interested in conducting research within their clinical role; therefore they are well positioned to benefit from such initiatives. The present study examined the current research interest, confidence and experience of speech language pathologists (SLPs) in a public healthcare workforce, as well as factors that predicted clinician research engagement. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 8 | 53% |
Germany | 1 | 7% |
United States | 1 | 7% |
Unknown | 5 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Members of the public | 9 | 60% |
Scientists | 3 | 20% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 13% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 69 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 20% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 14% |
Researcher | 9 | 13% |
Student > Master | 7 | 10% |
Student > Bachelor | 3 | 4% |
Other | 11 | 15% |
Unknown | 17 | 24% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Medicine and Dentistry | 15 | 21% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 14% |
Social Sciences | 9 | 13% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 7 | 10% |
Psychology | 5 | 7% |
Other | 7 | 10% |
Unknown | 18 | 25% |