How Often Do You Access Information about General Health Care Research? (n = 252 Answering) | ||||||
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Never n (%) | Few Times/Year n (%) | Once/Month n (%) | Once/Week n (%) | Few Times/Week n (%) | Daily n (%) | No Answer n |
1 (0.4) | 11 (4.4) | 22 (8.7) | 38 (15.1) | 102 (40.5) | 78 (30.9) | 0 |
Where do you learn about general health care research?*† (n = 252 answering) | ||
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Number† | % | |
Academic journals (original articles) | 219 | 86.9 |
Clinical practice guidelines | 200 | 79.4 |
Newspapers | 149 | 59.1 |
Informal discussions with colleagues at work | 147 | 58.3 |
Medical newspapers and magazines | 132 | 52.4 |
Summaries in academic journals | 133 | 52.8 |
Summaries of research (ie, clinical PEARLS) | 111 | 44 |
Social media including Facebook and Twitter | 73 | 29 |
Blogs on the Internet | 60 | 23.8 |
Podcasts about research or clinical practice | 49 | 19.4 |
Journal clubs | 44 | 17.4 |
Pharmaceutical company representatives | 26 | 10.3 |
Other | 23 | 9.1 |
Guidelines from professional organizations | 0 | 0 |
Not answered | 0 | 0 |
How often do you read original general health care research reports in academic journals? (n = 252 answering) | |||||
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Never n (%) | Few Times/Year n (%) | Monthly n (%) | Weekly n (%) | Daily n (%) | No Answer n |
6 (2.4) | 51 (20.2) | 91 (36.1) | 87 (34.5) | 17 (6.7) | 0 |
How often do general health research reports deliver what you need to: | ||||||
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Rarely n (%) | Sometimes n (%) | Frequently n (%) | Always n (%) | No Answer n | Mean†† | |
Understand the take-home messages | 6 (2.5) | 97 (41.1) | 118 (50) | 15 (6.4) | 16 | 2.60 |
Apply findings to your patients, practice, and community | 28 (11.9) | 132 (55.9) | 71 (30.1) | 5 (2.1) | 16 | 2.23 |
Change your clinical practice | 55 (23.5) | 140 (59.8) | 36 (15.4) | 3 (1.3) | 18 | 1.94 |
Critically appraise study quality | 38 (16.4) | 125 (53.9) | 54 (23.3) | 15 (6.5) | 20 | 1.94 |
Consider further scholarship/research in your own context | 95 (41.1) | 96 (41.6) | 33 (14.3) | 7 (3) | 21 | 1.79 |
How often do you read original primary care research reports in academic journals? | |||||
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Never n (%) | A Few Times/Year n (%) | Monthly n (%) | Weekly n (%) | Daily n (%) | No Answer n |
2 (0.9) | 56 (23.8) | 100 (42.5) | 70 (29.8) | 7 (3) | 17 |
How often do primary care research reports deliver what you need to: | ||||||
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Rarely n (%) | Sometimes n (%) | Frequently n (%) | Always n (%) | No Answer n | Mean†† | |
Understand the take-home message(s) | 3 (1.3) | 81 (36) | 118 (52.4) | 23 (10.2) | 27 | 2.72§ |
Apply findings to your patients, practice, and community | 11 (4.9) | 102 (45.7) | 98 (43.9) | 12 (5.4) | 29 | 2.50§ |
Change your clinical practice | 28 (12.5) | 154 (68.7) | 38 (17) | 4 (1.8) | 28 | 2.08§ |
Critically appraise study quality | 31 (14.2) | 125 (57) | 53 (24.2) | 10 (4.6) | 33 | 2.19 |
Consider further scholarship/research in your own context | 57 (25.7) | 118 (53.1) | 41 (18.5) | 6 (2.7) | 30 | 1.98§ |
Online survey 2019. n = 252.
↵* More than one option possible.
↵† Options are displayed here in rank order, not as presented on the questionnaire.
↵†† Four-point Likert scale: 1 = rarely, 2 = sometimes, 3 = frequently, 4 = always. See Appendix 2 for differences between ratings of general health care (GHC) and primary care (PC) research reports.
↵§ Significant difference in distributions of Likert scale scores, with PC scores higher than GHC scores, by Wilcoxon matched pairs signed-rank test, 2-tailed, alpha = 0.01. See detail in Appendix 2.