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Primary care physicians' attitudes toward research: a cross-sectional descriptive study.
Limor Adler1,2, Linoy Gabay1, Ilan Yehoshua1,3
1Department of Family Medicine, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Family Practice
|December 2, 2019
Summary
Family physicians engaging in research benefit from advanced training and dedicated time. Addressing barriers like workload and bureaucracy can boost primary care research participation.
Area of Science:
- Family Medicine
- Primary Care Research
- Health Services Research
Background:
- Clinical research in family medicine is vital for improving health outcomes and physician professionalism.
- Despite its importance, family medicine research is less prominent and underfunded compared to other medical disciplines.
- Understanding factors influencing family physician engagement in research is crucial for its advancement.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify factors that promote and impede family physician involvement in research.
- To compare the characteristics of family physicians who actively engage in research versus those who do not.
Main Methods:
- A cross-sectional study involving 235 primary care physicians from a health maintenance organization.
- Data collected via email questionnaires in September-October 2018.
- Analysis included univariate statistics, principal component analysis, and multivariate logistic regression to identify factors associated with research engagement.
Main Results:
- Only 20.4% of respondents were categorized as researchers.
- Advanced research training, reading more research articles, and self-employment were significantly associated with being a researcher.
- Researchers were more likely to be older, male, and work longer hours compared to non-researchers.
Conclusions:
- Dedicated research time, administrative support, and research training are key to increasing primary care physician participation.
- Emphasizing the importance of research through education can also foster greater engagement.
- Addressing systemic barriers like workload and bureaucracy is essential for advancing family medicine research.
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