Mahmoud Abdulraheem O, Ayanniyi Abdulkabir A, Lawal Abdul, Omolase Charles O, Ologunsua Yinka, Samaila Elsie
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria.
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria.
J Public Health Afr. 2011 Feb 11;2(1):e1. doi: 10.4081/jphia.2011.e1. eCollection 2011 Mar 1.
The current research aimed at collating the views of medical specialists on disease priorities, class and outcomes of health research in Nigeria, and draw appropriate policy implications. Structured questionnaires were distributed to consent 90 randomly selected medical specialists practising in six Nigerian tertiary health institutions. Participants' background information, relative disease priority, research types and class, type and class of publication media, frequency of publications, challenges faced in publishing research, impact of their research on health practice or policy, and inventions made were probed. Fifty-one out of the 90 questionnaires distributed were returned giving a response rate of 63.3%. Sixty-four point six percent indicated that the highest priority should be given to non communicable diseases while still recognizing that considerations should be giving to the others. They were largely "always" involved in simple low budget retrospective studies or cross-sectional and medical education studies (67.8%) and over a third (37.5%) had never been involved in clinical trials. They largely preferred to "always" publish in PubMed indexed journals that are foreign-based (65.0%). They also indicated that their research works very rarely resulted in inventions (4%) and change (4%) in clinical practice or health policy. Our study respondents indicated that they were largely involved in simple low budget research works that rarely had significant impacts and outcomes. We recommend that adequate resources and research infrastructures particularly funding be made available to medical specialists in Nigeria. Both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in Nigeria should emphasize research training in their curricula.
当前的研究旨在整理尼日利亚医学专家对疾病优先事项、健康研究的类别和成果的看法，并得出适当的政策建议。向尼日利亚六所三级医疗机构中随机抽取的90名同意参与的医学专家发放了结构化问卷。调查了参与者的背景信息、相对疾病优先级、研究类型和类别、出版媒体的类型和类别、出版频率、发表研究面临的挑战、他们的研究对健康实践或政策的影响以及所取得的发明。发放的90份问卷中有51份被收回，回复率为63.3%。64.6%的人表示应将最高优先级给予非传染性疾病，同时也认识到应考虑其他疾病。他们大多“总是”参与简单的低预算回顾性研究或横断面研究以及医学教育研究（67.8%），超过三分之一（37.5%）的人从未参与过临床试验。他们大多倾向于“总是”在国外的被PubMed索引的期刊上发表文章（65.0%）。他们还表示，他们的研究工作很少能带来发明（4%）以及临床实践或健康政策的改变（4%）。我们的研究受访者表示，他们大多参与简单的低预算研究工作，这些工作很少产生重大影响和成果。我们建议为尼日利亚的医学专家提供充足的资源和研究基础设施，特别是资金。尼日利亚的本科和研究生医学教育都应在课程中强调研究培训。
