“…This is a design that has been used widely in the development of knowledge in relation to how professionals engage in evidence-based practice, and what enhances and constrains this engagement. There have been a number of surveys of nurses' attitudes to and use of research (Rodgers, 1994(Rodgers, , 2000aMcSherry, 1997;Parahoo, 1999), as well as of other professional groups (Booth et al, 2003;Zipoli and Kennedy, 2005;Cameron et al, 2005). Similarly there have also been surveys of barriers to nurses' research utilization (Webster et al, 2003) and that of other professional groups (Humphris et al, 2000;Curtin and Jaramazovic, 2001).…”