Military nurses' perspectives towards research utilization barriers

A new improved randomized response model with application to compulsory motor insurance

One of the challenges, when investigating sensitive attributes, or information that people tend not to disclose, through surveys is the ethical obligation to preserve the privacy of respondents. Although the randomized response method, originally suggested by Warner, allows estimating the proportion of such attributes within the population while maintaining confidentiality, the variance of the estimate consistently increases if the likelihood of selecting the question about sensitive attribute increases. The purpose of this research is to introduce a new three-stage RR model which provides an efficient alternative to Warner's model that allows more credibility from a practical perspective and apply the model to estimate noncompliance ratio in compulsory motor insurance. For the two models, a measure of privacy protection was calculated and a relation between this measure and the efficiency of both models was introduced. Efficiency comparisons indicate that the proposed model can always be made more efficient than both Warner's and Mangat & Singh's RR models. The proposed model, with specific parameter selection, was applied on a selected population and proved a practical reliability. The noncompliance ratio to obtain compulsory motor insurance was estimated by both a point and a confidence interval. This estimate provides a basis to predict third party motor insurance inclusion.

Barriers to Research Utilization in Nursing: A Systematic Review (2002–2021)

Introduction

There is an existing gap between what people learned from theory and what they clinically practiced, as revealed in research studies in nursing. This gap is primarily due to identified barriers in utilizing the research findings in actual nursing practice.

Objective

To present a scientific mapping of the Scopus-indexed literature published from 2002 to 2021, which studied barriers to research utilization in nursing using the BARRIER scale.

Methods

This systematic review utilized bibliometric analysis. One hundred seventy-nine extracted literature from Scopus was manually reviewed, and the study included 53 documents for further analysis.

Results

Remarkably, almost three-fourths of the documents identified setting-related factors as the most common barrier to research utilization in nursing (n = 39, 73.58%). This is followed by presentation-related factors (n = 16.98%) and nurse-related factors (n = 5, 9.43%), respectively. Findings revealed that insufficient time at work in implementing new ideas was perceived as the top barrier in research utilization in nursing.

Conclusion

It is crucial to determine the hindrances to the utilization of research findings. The results of this study establish the connection between research and evidence-based practice which stimulates in meeting the gap in the current nursing practice. Future studies must include research utilization studies that apply tools other than the BARRIER scale.