Awareness about medical research among resident doctors in a tertiary care hospital: A cross-sectional survey

Abstract

Context:Every medical practitioner should strive to contribute to the generation of evidence by conducting research. For carrying out research, adequate knowledge, practical skills, and development of the right attitude are crucial. A literature review shows that data regarding knowledge, attitude, and practices toward medical research, among resident doctors in India, is lacking.Aims:This study was conducted to assess research-related knowledge, attitude, and practices among resident doctors.Settings and Design:A cross-sectional survey was conducted using a pretested, structured, and pre-validated questionnaire.Materials and Methods:With approval of the Institutional Ethics Committee and a verbal consent, a cross-sectional survey among 100 resident doctors pursuing their second and third years in the MD and MS courses was conducted using a structured and pre-validated questionnaire.Statistical Analysis:Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the results.Results:The concept of research hypothesis was known to 58% of the residents. Ninety-eight percent of the residents were aware of the procedure to obtain informed consent. Seventy-six percent agreed that research training should be mandatory. Although 88% of the residents were interested in conducting research in future, 50% had participated in research other than a dissertation project, 28% had made scientific presentations, and only 4% had publications. Lack of time (74%), lack of research curriculum (42%), and inadequate facilities (38%) were stated as major obstacles for pursuing research.Conclusions:Although resident doctors demonstrated a fairly good knowledge and positive attitude toward research, it did not translate into practice for most of them. There is a need to improve the existing medical education system to foster research culture among resident doctors

Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices in Research among Postgraduate Students in Dental Schools of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

“…Lesser number of participants (36.8%) knew the definition of research hypothesis. This was in accordance with the studies done by Giri et al, 11 Rani and Priya, 12 and Sharma et al, 13 while another study done by Pawar et al 9 showed higher number of participants (58.0%) knew the definition of research hypothesis. In the present study, majority of participants (64.7%) did not know the full form of MEDLINE.…”

“…In the present study, majority of participants (64.7%) did not know the full form of MEDLINE. This was in accordance with the study done by Giri et al 11 and Pawar et al, 9 while other study done by Sharma et al 13 was not in agreement to our study. In the present study, higher number of participants (63.9%) did not knew the full form of MEDLARS.…”

“…8,9 The questionnaire consisted of several parts. The first part pertained to a collection of demographic information of the PGs: Age, gender, specialty, year of postgraduation, and marital status.…”

Training Need Assessment of Bio-Medical Research among Faculty Members of Government Medical College, Srinagar

“…The knowledge and pre-requisites of research were fairly good among the faculty members but very few of them could transform it into practice. Similar results were obtained in a study done by Pavar D.B et al (2012) 6 among 100 resident doctors working in a tertiary care hospital Mumbai, India were they found concept of research was known to 58% of participants and 88% of them were interested in conducting research training in future. Research publications should be made mandatory for the purpose of promotions of faculty members and preferences should be given to those having maximum number of publications.…”

“…The previous studies have documented that only 0.9% of medical students had shown interest in research through various programs. 6 Utilization of research publications for purpose of promotion at work is a stimulant for greater involvement of medical doctors in research. Therefore, in institutions where such publications are needed for purpose of promotion, the anatomy and physiology of research, formulation and discussion of a research question, concepts of research design, sampling and data management.…”