Experiences of hospital allied health professionals in collaborative student research projects: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Active engagement in research by healthcare organisations and clinicians is associated with improvements in healthcare performance. Barriers to research engagement by clinician allied health (AH) professionals include competing priorities from high clinical workloads, lack of research skills and confidence, and lack of supportive research relationships. Collaboration with universities on joint clinical research projects is well recognised as a means of building health service research capacity. Research projects undertaken by students as part of their qualifying degree represent one such opportunity. However, there are few reports evaluating these collaborations from the health service perspective.

Methods

A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews and t

SUBMITTER: Angus RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9161454 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature