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Perceptions and attitudes of registered nurses to research: a comparison with a previous study
Author(s) -
Ehrenfeld M,
Eckerling S
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1991.tb01628.x
Subject(s) - tel aviv , perception , psychology , nursing research , medical education , nursing , medicine , library science , computer science , neuroscience
Registered nurses' perceptions of research activities were examined and compared to those of academic nursing students at Tel‐Aviv University in a previous paper The study concentrated on attitudes, role perception, ability and intention to perform those activities in the future The research activities were ‘read research’, ‘encourage colleagues to read research’, ‘apply research findings’ and ‘initiate research’ It was found that RNs viewed all research activities favourably, but slightly lower, sometimes significantly so, than the academic nursing students RNs with Masters degrees scored significantly higher than RNs without academic degrees The multiple regression analysis in both studies showed an interplay between ability to perform research activities and attitudes toward them; where ‘ability’ was higher,‘attitudes' towards research activities were more posihve, and vice versa.