Open AccessHealth Research Conducting Quality Perceptions of Medical Postgraduate Trainees
Author(s) -
Shanti Chouhan,
Khalida Naz Memon
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of pharmaceutical research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-9119
DOI - 10.9734/jpri/2021/v33i40a32250
Subject(s) - stratified sampling , medicine , biomedical sciences , family medicine , statistical significance , test (biology) , chi square test , affect (linguistics) , medical education , research design , quality (philosophy) , psychology , nursing , pathology , social science , paleontology , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , communication , epistemology , sociology , biology
Background: Health researchers in medical universities are surrounded by existing hurdles to the health research during the process of conduction which may affect the quality of conduction of health research undertaken by the medical trainees. The current study is conducted to determine the effects of barriers on the quality of conduction of health research.
Study Design: Descriptive cross-sectional study.
Place and Duration of Study: Research conducting postgraduate trainees in various disciplines in Liaqaut University of Medical & Health Sciences, Jamshoro from 1st September 2018 to 31st December 2018.
Methodology: Two hundred & sixteen health research trainees were recruited for study through stratified sampling technique; the subjects included 79 males &137 females of age bracket of 24-50 years. After taking the consent, data was collected on a preformed questionnaire and analyzed in SPSS version 23.0 by computing proportions, mean ± standard deviation and using Chi-square test as statistical test of significance with the p-value of 0.05 taken as level of significance.
Results: Overall, two hundred and fifty subjects were approached to obtain the complete response of the required sample of two hundred and sixteen. The response rate was 86.4%. The 72 (33.3%) trainees in medicine and allied sciences, 66 (92%) trainees experienced various barriers in quality of conducting of health research. From 42 (19.4%) trainees in surgery and allied sciences, 22 (51.2%) perceived effects of barriers on their health research conducting (HRC) quality. Amongst 33 (15.3%) trainees in basic sciences, 15 (45%) faced various hurdles while going through their research; surprisingly all the trainees conducting research in field of pharmacology faced various barriers during research process. Out of 67 (31.0%) postgraduate trainees in dentistry, 60 (90%) reported various barriers (p= 0.03).
Conclusion: Quality conduction of health research affected by barriers is experienced by majority of medical researchers and trainees during their postgraduate training. The majority of the postgraduate trainees conducting research from clinical fields face more effects on their research conducting quality as compared to the basic sciences researchers.
Recommendation: Quality assessment protocol should be incorporated during research conducting process. Actions should be taken for reducing the barriers related to HRC quality. Collaborative health research amongst clinical and basic sciences fields can be done to improve the quality.