Allison Paul J, Bedos Christophe
Faculty of Dentistry, McGill University, Room 238 D, 3640 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B2.
J Dent Educ. 2003 May;67(5):533-41.
As part of a major reorganization of health and health care research in Canada, a study was performed to investigate the views of Canadian dentists on the utility and accessibility of the results of dental research. A cross-sectional survey design was used. Questionnaires and a postage-prepaid reply envelope were mailed with the December 2001 issue of the Journal of the Canadian Dental Association (JCDA) to all registered Canadian dentists. No second mailing occurred. Of 17,648 questionnaires distributed, 2,797 were returned representing a 15.8 percent response rate. In this sample, 64.3 percent found research findings easily available, 88.8 percent found research findings useful, and 95.8 percent had already changed one or more aspects of their clinical practice due to research findings. Significant differences in preferred means of learning the results of research and preferred formats for written reports of research findings were evident between generalist/clinicians and specialist/researchers. These results suggest that Canadian dentists are interested in the results of research and apply them to their practice, but that there are two main groups (generalist/clinicians and specialist/researchers) with different needs for learning the results of that research.
作为加拿大健康与医疗研究重大重组的一部分，开展了一项研究以调查加拿大牙医对牙科研究结果的实用性和可获取性的看法。采用了横断面调查设计。问卷和邮资已付的回函信封随2001年12月的《加拿大牙科协会杂志》（JCDA）一同邮寄给所有注册的加拿大牙医。未进行二次邮寄。在分发的17,648份问卷中，有2,797份被退回，回复率为15.8%。在这个样本中，64.3%的人认为研究结果很容易获取，88.8%的人认为研究结果有用，95.8%的人已经因为研究结果改变了其临床实践的一个或多个方面。在全科医生/临床医生和专科医生/研究人员之间，在了解研究结果的首选方式以及研究结果书面报告的首选格式方面存在显著差异。这些结果表明，加拿大牙医对研究结果感兴趣并将其应用于实践，但存在两个主要群体（全科医生/临床医生和专科医生/研究人员），他们在了解该研究结果方面有不同的需求。
