Perceived Barriers to Implementing Evidence, Attitudes, and Research Experiences Toward Evidence –Based Nursing Practice among Professional Nurses in Health Promoting Hospital

Abstract

          The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships among perceived barriers, attitude, and research experiences to evidence-based nursing practice. A simple random sample of 234 nurses working in health-promoting hospitals was drawn from the name lists of registered nurses in five provinces of Health Service Plan Region 3. One hundred and fifty-one completed questionnaires were returned by postage mail, with a response rate of 64.53%. Data were collected through demographic data, barriers to implementing evidence, attitudes towards evidence-based practice, research experiences, and evidence-based nursing practice questionnaires. Correlations were analyzed by using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation. The findings showed that the nurses had an average age of 43.41 years (SD = 5.99) and 92.70% were nurses with bachelor’s degree. The mean scores of evidence-based nursing practice and perceived barriers were in moderate levels. The most encountered barrier to implementing evidence-based nursing was reporting research in English. The samples had low mean score of research experiences. There was significant negative correlation between perceived barriers to implementing evidence and evidence-based nursing practice (r(151) = -.506, p < .01). Attitudes and research experiences were significantly positive correlated with evidence-based nursing practice (r(151) = .538, p < .01; r(151) = .311, p < .01). Based on the findings, it is suggested that primary healthcare organizations should develop a strategy to support professional nurses to minimize barriers and build evidence-based practice skills through proper training. Besides education/training on research, primary health care organizaitons should continuously encourage nurses to conduct research by setting a research advisory team to provide support.