SURVEY ON

RESEARCH CAPACITY

AND CULTURE May 2018

Survey

• Survey was developed by the Clinical Research

Leadership Group to establish a baseline

• Demographic information

• Participation in research activities

• Research Capacity and Culture Tool

• Holden, et al. 2012

• Administered online (CUH, Papworth, CPFT, May Conference, EoE

Ambulance Service, local universities) May to August 2017

• Prize draw (10 gift certificates)

• 534 responses

Joanna Goncalves & Debbie White

Who completed the survey?

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Group %

Group

N = 531

Other Information

• Where work:

• CUH 74%

• Papworth 10%

• University 10%

• Cambridge 87.2%

• ARU 4.3%

• Other 8.5%

• CPFT 0.8%

• Ambulance Service 5%

Band

Band

student

2,3,4

5

6

7

8a

8b

8c

NA

N = 534

Qualification

0 10 20 30 40 50

Dip/Cert

BSc/BA

Masters

PhD

Prof Doc

other

Qualification %

Qualification

N = 534

Degree if Studying Degree

BSc/BA

Masters

PhD

Prof Doc

Other

9.9% are currently studying (51) out of 516 responses

Primary Role

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

Clinical Admin/mgt ClinResearch

Clin + res Res coord Other

Role %

Role

N = 500

Division CUH

0 5 10 15 20 25 30

A

B

C

D

E

Division %

Division

Division A: MSK; Digestive Diseases and ICU/Periops

Division B: Cancer; Labs; Imaging and Clinical support

Division C: Acute Medicine; Inflammation/Infection; Transplant

Division D: Neuroscience; ENT/Head and neck/Plastics;

Cardiovascular-Metabolic

Division E: Medical Paediatrics; Paediatric Critical Care and Surgery

Paediatrics; Obstetrics and Gynaecology

N = 346

Do you know whom to contact…

• If a patient says they are interested in being in a research

study?

• Yes 54.3%

• No 43.7%

• Multiple text replies – specific people and general (e.g.

study team, research coordinator, check on Connect,

poster in ward)

• 475 responses

Social Media Use

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

twitter

facebook

instagram

none

multiple

N = 490

Research Activities (1)

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

Ques prac Read paper Journal club Lit search Sys Review

Yes

No

Percentage of respondents

Research Activities (2)

Dev Ques

Recruited

data collec

data analysis

conducted

PI

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

Yes

Yes

Percentage of respondents answering Yes

Research Activities (3)

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

Internalfund

Extfunding

contribpaper

submitpaper

Presintern

Pres nat presinternat

Yes

No

Of those who applied for internal funding 83% were successful,

68% were successful of those applying for external funding.

Research Capacity & Capability

• Organisational Assessment on 20 elements

• Scored from 1 – 10 on lowest to highest achievement of each

• We included ‘Don’t know’ and NA for those not working at CUH or

Papworth

• Individual Assessment on 15 elements

• Scored 1 – 10 on ranking achievement or success with each item

• Included ‘not applicable’ as an option

Research Capacity & Culture

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Resource R resource plan/policy Lit access Sr Mgrs

sd

Mean

Median

N = 356

Research Capacity & Culture

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Fre

quency

Adeq resources

Adeq resources

Research Capacity & Culture

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

career path plan EBP PPI ext funds prom EBP

sd

Mean

Median

Research Capacity & Culture

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Fre

quency

career pathways

career pathways

Research Capacity & Capability

0 2 4 6 8 10

Enc Res

Exp access

multidisc

prov forum

supp app

Median

Mean

sd

Research Capacity & Culture

• Organisational Scores

• Median scores consistently 7 or 8; Mean scores 6 – 8 with sd (1.5

to 2.9)

• Bar charts for individual questions show full range of responses

• Comparison to Australian scores median 4 – 9 (n = 134 AHPs)

• Number of responses on individual questions ranged from 226 –

371

• Large number who stated ‘don’t know’

Individual achievement

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

find lit critical rev write prot secure fund NREC

sd

mean

median

Individual achievement

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

qualanalysis

quananalysis

publication integrate

sd

mean

median

Individual Achievements

• Median scores ranged from 4 – 7

• Lowest median scores for securing funding, writing for

publication

• Compares with Australian median scores 2 – 6

• Number of responses ranged from 227 to 370 on

individual questions

• High number of ‘not applicable’ responses

Conclusions

• 534 responses of interested staff

• Organisations (CUH & Papworth) rated highly in terms of

research capacity and culture

• Staff also rate achievements fairly high in research

• However few have submitted for publication, secured funding…

• Further analysis of these data including those replying

‘don’t know’ or ‘not applicable’

• Comparisons by bands, divisions, disciplines