title: Iranian nurses' constraint for research utilization.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This paper identifies the views of Iranian clinical nurses regarding the utilization of nursing research in practice. There is a need to understand what restricts Iranian clinical nurses to use research findings. The aim of this study was to identify practicing nurses' view of aspects which they perceived constrain them from research utilization that summarizes and uses research findings to address a nursing practice problem.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were collected during 6 months by means of face-to face interviews follow by one focus group. Analysis was undertaken using a qualitative content analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Findings disclosed some key themes perceived by nurses to restrict them to use research findings: level of support require to be research active, to be research minded, the extent of nurses knowledge and skills about research and research utilization, level of educational preparation relating to using research, administration and executive challenges in clinical setting, and theory-practice gap.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study identifies constraints that require to be overcome for clinical nurses to actively get involved in research utilization. In this study nurses were generally interested to use research findings. However they felt restricted because of lack of time, lack of peer and manager support and limited knowledge and skills of the research process. This study also confirms that research utilization and the change to research nursing practice are complex issues which require both organizational and educational efforts.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Faculty, Tehran university of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. m_salsali@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Mahvash
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Salsali
authors.forename: Neda
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mehrdad