Nurses’ Perceived Barriers to and Facilitators of Research Utilization in Mainland China: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Table 2: Means and Standard Deviations of Item Scores of the BARRIERS Scale and its Subscales (N =743)

Scale or Subscales	Actual Range	Mean (SD)	95% CI	Cronbach’s Alpha

BARRIERS total scale (29 - 145)^a	35 - 145	89.32 (19.62)	8791 - 90.73	0.90
Organisational characteristics (8 - 40)	10 - 40	2609 (625)	2564 - 2653	0.87
Nurse characteristics (9 - 45)	9 - 40	2461 (642)	2414 - 2507	0.92
Presentation and accessibility of research (6 - 30)	6 - 37	1819 (487)	1783 - 1854	0.90
Quality of research (6 - 30)	6 - 30	1760 (487)	1725 - 1795	0.92

^a The possible range of scores is denoted in parentheses.

BARRIERS: Barriers to Research Utilization scale.