Paramedical students’ perceptions of research: a survey

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Representations of Research among Newly Graduated Paramedical Professionals: A Qualitative Study

“…Overall, the newly graduated paramedical professionals perceived themselves more as users than as generators of evidence. Research is also essentially perceived as patient centered; this should be considered in light of the fact that the main barrier to research was a preference for their core work [4]. This also concurs with the fact that nurses' satisfaction at work has been found to strongly correlate with thinking of their function in terms of "people-centered" care of patients [8], and the fact that research has been perceived as not being part of their culture [31].…”

“…In a previous study, we investigated the perceptions of research of paramedical students in their final year (speech therapy, occupational therapy, psychomotricity, audiometry, physiotherapy, orthoptics) through a national online survey conducted between January and March 2019 [4]. At the end of the survey, participating students were asked to provide their email address if they were happy to follow up with an interview in order to explore their perceptions in more depth.…”

“…The interview grid is provided in a supplementary file and was built based on results of our previous survey [4], and the results of the free word associations. It was structured around 3 notions: the role of research and evidence in their professional practice, the role their professional context plays in implementing research and the role of research in professional identity.…”

“…The paramedical professions targeted by the survey were speech therapy, occupational therapy, psychomotricity, audiometry, physiotherapy and orthoptics since they all work towards the same specific objective of patient rehabilitation, and their needs in terms of research capacity building are likely to be similar [3]. This survey revealed that 98.6% of the respondents found research to be useful, but only 34.3% were willing to conduct research themselves [4]. It also found that the most important barrier to research was the professionals' preference for their core work.…”

French speech–language therapy students’ interest in evidence‐based practice: A survey

“…Yet, Mc Curtin and Clifford (2015) show that young Irish professionals tend to seek advice from experienced professionals rather than use EBP. Lastly, the appropriation of EBP is still recent and extremely diverse among allied health professions, of which SLT is a part, and the general implementation must be accompanied by evolution in schools teaching rehabilitation; although students are reported to find research useful but not competent in this area (Decullier et al., 2020). Pagnamenta and Joffe (2018) surveyed the amount and nature of research training in courses for speech and language therapists in the UK; they found a high variability in training programmes, of the levels of perceived confidence of graduates, not only for active participation in research and for leading research, but also for research awareness.…”