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Trends in nursing research in F rance: a cross‐sectional analysis
Author(s) -
Dupin C.M.,
Chami K.,
Petit dit Dariel O.,
Debout C.,
RothanTondeur M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international nursing review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.84
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1466-7657
pISSN - 0020-8132
DOI - 10.1111/inr.12020
Subject(s) - nursing , nursing research , principal (computer security) , data collection , research design , medicine , cross sectional study , sociology , social science , computer science , operating system , pathology
Aim To examine the engagement of F rench registered nurses with the M inistry of H ealth's initiative to spur scientific inquiry in the community. Background F rench nursing research has suffered from a lack of dedicated funding. Positive signs of change have recently appeared, with the launch of the first national public funding programme dedicated to nursing research. This initiative, begun in 2010, was launched by the F rench M inistry of H ealth. Through this initiative, 149 registered nurses, serving as principal investigators, and their teams submitted research proposals between 2010 and 2011. The administrative guidelines of the funding programme are clearly oriented towards producing quantitative and exogenous nursing research. Method A cross‐sectional analysis of 149 nursing research projects submitted during the first and second years of a F rench national funding programme for hospital‐based nursing research was conducted. Research proposals were included in the analysis whether they received funding or not. Data collection took place in 2011. The categories used in the analysis were the following: (1) the socio‐demographic data on the registered nurse principal investigators, (2) the research teams and (3) the research proposals (methodologies, bibliography, focus of the research, output, the status of the research proposals). Results This study highlights the presence of methodological homogeneity among the research proposals submitted for funding. Clear tendencies were towards interventional and quantitative studies and those with an exogenous factor research objective. Between 2010 and 2011, 25 projects were funded out of 149 submitted. They were mostly quantitative and/or focused on the exogenous factors in patient care. Conclusion The socio‐political context of a funding programme designed to encourage nursing research has had an implicit influence on the type of research to which F rench nurses have committed themselves to and the scientific positions with which these nurse researchers align themselves.