Research barriers from the viewpoint of faculty members and employees of Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences

Undoubtedly the power, development and real independency of countries have a straight relationship with their ability to produce science and developing research activities. This research was performed to determine the research barriers from the view point of Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences faculty members and employees. In this descriptive analytic cross-sectional study which was carried out on in 2006-07, 480 of the faculty members and employees of on Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences were selected by census (for faculty members) and randomize cluster (for employees) sampling methods. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire consisting of 3 individual characteristics, organizational barriers and individual barriers in Likert scale. Data analysis was done by student’s T, Chi square and variance analysis tests. 452 questionnaires were returned. The most important barriers of research were “inadequate incentives in researchers”, “inadequate time and lots of work”, “too much official red tapes”, “not using the research results” and “inability to translate Persian articles to other languages”, respectively. The least important barriers were “not interesting in research”, “difficulties in computer usage” and “limited benefit of research to patients”. The mean of organizational barriers was more than personal barriers (p<0.0001). There was a significant difference between the mean of organizational and individual barriers of research among faculty members and employees (p<0.0001). Removing these barriers by the research officials & hospital managers is necessary.