TY - JOUR AU - Hosseinzadeh, Touba AU - Ghanbari, Atefeh AU - Paryad, Ezzat AU - Maghsoudi, Shahrokh AU - Pour Alizadeh, Moluk PY - 2019/04/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Research priorities in Evidence-Based Nursing Cares: A Delphi survey JF - Journal of Health Sciences JA - JHSCI VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - Research articles DO - 10.17532/jhsci.2018.270 UR - https://www.jhsci.ba/ojs/index.php/jhsci/article/view/270 SP - 9-16 AB - <p><strong>Introduction</strong>: Determining the research priorities in Evidence-Based Nursing Care is considered as a regular method to provide substantive information for developing the nursing science and taking evidence-based practical steps but such research is currently minimal. Therefore, a Delphi survey was conducted to determine the research priorities in Evidence-Based Nursing Care in the North of Iran.</p><p><strong>Methods</strong>: A three-round Delphi study was conducted to identify research priorities in Evidence-Based Nursing Care. The study comprised of research nurses, who have attended a Research Methodology course and did have published research. A Delphi expert panel consists of a group of credible experts within the field attending in consensus meetings to determine the nursing research top priorities. Open-ended questions were analyzed using thematic content analysis. Analysis of questionnaires 2 and 3 entailed an examination of the mean scores for each priority ranked on the five-point Likert scale.</p><p><strong>Results</strong>: Round 1 had 42 themes across 174 topics, identiļ¬ed by analyzing the data. In Round 2, respondents ranked all themes and 30 themes were selected. Finally, in Round 3, the top five research priorities emerged as the following: Assurance in health care, nurse-patient communication, pain management, taking care of the patients under mechanical ventilation and drug care.</p><p><strong>Conclusions</strong>: Determining research priorities in the Evidence-Based Nursing Care would optimize the level of utilization of the results of the studies by nurses and subsequently could improve the delivery of evidence-based nursing services; Prioritization will also help in directing resources to the essential research needs.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -