Hospital Staff Survey on Research Barriers, 640 Responses from Dublin

640 survey responses from staff at a large inner-city tertiary referral hospital in Dublin, Ireland, evaluating knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes towards organizational research and innovation. The 26-item semi-qualitative survey was disseminated electronically and face-to-face, with quantitative data analyzed in R and Microsoft Excel. Author Gerry Hughes published the dataset on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Identify primary barriers to research engagement based on reported challenges like time constraints and limited support.
• Assess staff interest in research training based on the finding that over half expressed a desire for additional training.
• Analyze the relationship between research culture and infrastructural gaps mentioned in the discussion.
• Model potential interventions for research integration based on suggested support structures like protected time and statistical assistance.

Strengths

• Dataset includes 640 survey responses, providing a substantive sample size.
• Survey instrument was a 26-item questionnaire iteratively refined by a hospital Research Steering Committee.
• Analysis includes both quantitative methods and qualitative content analysis.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope and likely a summary or aggregated data.

Provenance

Source

Survey conducted at a large inner-city tertiary referral hospital in Dublin, Ireland.

Collection Method

A 26-item semi-qualitative survey disseminated through electronic and face-to-face recruitment.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 17:32:19; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Dublin, Ireland