[To establish nurse research priorities in Spain: Delphi study].
OBJECTIVE
To identify nursing research priorities in Spain as suggested by nurses and service users.


METHODS
A Modified Delphi technique was used. The first round started off with a 24-item document for which consensus had been previously achieved. Experts participating in this modified (two rounds) Delphi technique were: nursing managers (community and hospital care settings), nursing school directors, scientific nursing association representatives, nursing researchers attending the National Nursing Research Conference, and service users.


RESULTS
Main priorities identified for nursing research were: 1) evaluating the effectiveness of nursing interventions, 2) identifying strategies for health promotion empowering service users, 3) developing evidence-based care through implementing and evaluating results, and 4) evaluating the quality of nursing care.


CONCLUSIONS
Results may help research managers and administrators identify and develop nursing research promotion strategies as well as more strongly sustained funding policies and decisions.
Comet-Cortés
Pilar
P
Unidad Mixta de Investigación, Hospital Clínico Universitario Lozano Blesa, Zaragoza, España. pcomet@unizar.es
Escobar-Aguilar
Gema
G
González-Gil
Teresa
T
de Ormijana-Sáenz Hernández
Amaia
A
Rich-Ruiz
Manuel
M
Vidal-Thomas
Clara
C
Córcoles-Jiménez
Pilar
P
Izquierdo-Mora
Dolores
D
Silvestre-Busto
Carmen
C
D003697:Delphi Technique; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013030:Spain