Trends in nursing research in France: a cross-sectional analysis

Cécile Marie Dupin (), K. Chami, Odessa Petit Dit Dariel (), Christophe Debout and Monique Rothan-Tondeur
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Cécile Marie Dupin: LERASS - Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches Appliquées en Sciences Sociales - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès - UT - Université de Toulouse - UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT - Université de Toulouse
K. Chami: ORCHIDS - Operations research for Complex HybrId Decision Sytems - LORIA - NSS - Department of Networks, Systems and Services - LORIA - Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications - Inria - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Odessa Petit Dit Dariel: EHESP - École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP], EA MOS - EA Management des Organisations de Santé - EHESP - École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP] - PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité
Christophe Debout: EHESP - École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP]
Monique Rothan-Tondeur: EHESP - École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP]

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Abstract: Aim To examine the engagement of French registered nurses with the Ministry of Health's initiative to spur scientific inquiry in the community. Background French nursing research has suffered from a lack of dedicated funding. Positive signs of change have recently appeared, with the launch of the first national public funding programme dedicated to nursing research. This initiative, begun in 2010, was launched by the French Ministry of Health. Through this initiative, 149 registered nurses, serving as principal investigators, and their teams submitted research proposals between 2010 and 2011. The administrative guidelines of the funding programme are clearly oriented towards producing quantitative and exogenous nursing research. Method A cross-sectional analysis of 149 nursing research projects submitted during the first and second years of a French national funding programme for hospital-based nursing research was conducted. Research proposals were included in the analysis whether they received funding or not. Data collection took place in 2011. The categories used in the analysis were the following: (1) the socio-demographic data on the registered nurse principal investigators, (2) the research teams and (3) the research proposals (methodologies, bibliography, focus of the research, output, the status of the research proposals). Results This study highlights the presence of methodological homogeneity among the research proposals submitted for funding. Clear tendencies were towards interventional and quantitative studies and those with an exogenous factor research objective. Between 2010 and 2011, 25 projects were funded out of 149 submitted. They were mostly quantitative and/or focused on the exogenous factors in patient care. Conclusion The socio-political context of a funding programme designed to encourage nursing research has had an implicit influence on the type of research to which French nurses have committed themselves to and the scientific positions with which these nurse researchers align themselves.

Keywords: Administrative Guidelines; Descriptive Study; Exploratory Statistical Analysis; France; Nurses; Research Support; Research Proposals; Scientific Commitment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-03-21
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Published in International Nursing Review, 2013, 60 (2), pp.258 - 266. ⟨10.1111/inr.12020⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/inr.12020

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