title: Building research capacity. An exploratory model of GPs' training needs and barriers to research involvement.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine general practitioners' research training needs, and the barriers to involvement in research.
  
  
  METHODS
  Semi-structured interviews with 11 GPs in rural and metropolitan South Australia, analysed using a grounded theory approach.
  
  
  RESULTS
  General practitioners' perceptions about their research needs were limited by their own experience and focussed at an individual level. Overlapping needs and barriers emerged, categorised as: 'individual issues' (a lack of research training or experience, concepts and attitudes to research, and research interest) and 'systems issues' (funding arrangements for general practice, access to resources, opportunity for publication and the role of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners [RACGP]).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our data provide an exploratory model that may assist in developing suitable strategies for research capacity building programs. General practitioners perceived both individual and systems solutions to building research capacity, including multifaceted interventions.
authors.affiliation: PHCRED Program, Department of General Practice, Flinders University, South Australia. alison.jones@adelaide.edu.au
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Teresa A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Burgess
authors.forename: Elizabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Farmer
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fuller
authors.forename: Nigel P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Stocks
authors.forename: Judy E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Raechel L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Waters
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D035843:Biomedical Research; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D020380:Needs Assessment; D010819:Physician's Role; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000193:education*; D013021:South Australia