[The assessment of the impact of education and support to nursing research on nurses' scientific production in an Emilia Romagna Hospital].
BACKGROUND
In Italy research conducted by non medical professions is scarce also for the lack of knowledge on methods. At Rizzoli hospital in Bologna in 2006 a Centre for research to educate and support health professionals was implemented.


OBJECTIVE
To assess the impact of the research centre on number of research articles and protocols produced by nurses.


METHODS
Interrupted time series. In the five years before and after the implementation of the centre data on the number of protocols approved by Ethical Committee with a nurse as principal investigator and on the number of articles published on impacted journals with a nurse as first author were collected. The number of nurses authors of the publications was also collected.


RESULTS
For all the variables an increasing trend, starting from 2006 was observed, with statistically significant differences from 2008 for the number of research protocols presented (p=0.037), the number of nurses authors of scientific articles (p=0.027). Although the number of publications on impacted journals increased from 2006, differences were not statistically significant after 2008.


CONCLUSIONS
An hospital based Centre for education and support to research for health professionals may facilitate the scientific and research production.
Cristiana
C
Forni
Paolo
P
Chiari
Lorenza
L
Guarino
Morena
M
Tremosini
Carmela
C
Trofa
Fabio
F
D'Alessandro
Tania
T
Sabattini
Sandra
S
Mini
Enrichetta
E
Zanotti
D004506:Education, Nursing; D006761:Hospitals; D007558:Italy; D015399:Nursing Research; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013997:Time Factors