Barriers to research utilisation of nurses and midwives working in North Gondar and West Gojjam Zone public hospitals, North West Ethiopia, 2019
| Items | Mean | SD |
| Inability to use research in their current clinical decision-making practice. | 3.14 | 1.1 |
| Inability to properly interpret the results of research studies. | 3.19 | 1.13 |
| Insufficient resources (eg, equipment, materials) to use research findings. | 3.2 | 1.16 |
| Difficulty in judging the quality of research papers and reports. | 3.24 | 1.14 |
| Difficulty in determining the applicability of research findings. | 3.25 | 1.03 |
| Inadequate understanding of terms used in research articles. | 3.3 | 1.18 |
| Inability to implement recommendations of research studies into clinical practice. | 3.33 | 1.12 |
| Inability to understand statistical terms used in research articles. | 3.35 | 1.11 |
| Difficulty in finding time at workplace to search for and read research articles and reports. | 3.56 | 1.19 |
| Total | 3.28 | 1.0 |