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Motivators and barriers to research participation among medical students in Saudi Arabia

Little is known about the obstacles medical students face when conducting research in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, the proportion of medical students in research has been unknown in our region compared to other regions. We sought to identify the barriers and motivators that influence undergraduate medica...

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Autores principales: Alhabib, Rakan K., Alhusseini, Noara, Aboalsamh, Anas G., Adi, Ghaith, Ismail, Aya, Hajja, Amro, Alammari, Duaa, Khalil, Ziad, Alharbi, Maha A., Albahiti, Sarah K.
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10138799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37104288
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284990
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author Alhabib, Rakan K.
Alhusseini, Noara
Aboalsamh, Anas G.
Adi, Ghaith
Ismail, Aya
Hajja, Amro
Alammari, Duaa
Khalil, Ziad
Alharbi, Maha A.
Albahiti, Sarah K.
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Alhusseini, Noara
Aboalsamh, Anas G.
Adi, Ghaith
Ismail, Aya
Hajja, Amro
Alammari, Duaa
Khalil, Ziad
Alharbi, Maha A.
Albahiti, Sarah K.
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description Little is known about the obstacles medical students face when conducting research in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, the proportion of medical students in research has been unknown in our region compared to other regions. We sought to identify the barriers and motivators that influence undergraduate medical students in pursuing research. This was a cross-sectional study design, utilizing an online survey distributed through social media platforms from the 17(th) of December 2021 to the 8(th) of April 2022. The survey was distributed to four universities in Saudi Arabia. Participants’ characteristics, details regarding involvement in research, and attitude towards research were collected. Frequency measures were used to characterize the demographics and chi-squared tests to determine associations. A total of 435 students were included in the final analysis. The highest proportion of students that responded were second year, followed by first year medical students. Less than half (47.6%) of medical students were involved in research. A significant correlation was revealed between the involvement in research and higher participants’ Grade Point Average (GPA). The top three incentives for pursuing undergraduate research were “admission into residency programs” (44.8%), “interest in research” (28.7%), and “financial return” (10.8%). However, the top three limitations were “lack of time” (29.2%), “lack of mentoring” (16.8%), and “lack of interest in research” (14.7%). System-related barriers and motivators were the main reasons behind the involvement of medical students in research. Our study is a call for action to raise awareness among medical students about the importance of research and to provide solutions to overcome these barriers.
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spelling pubmed-101387992023-04-28 Motivators and barriers to research participation among medical students in Saudi Arabia Alhabib, Rakan K. Alhusseini, Noara Aboalsamh, Anas G. Adi, Ghaith Ismail, Aya Hajja, Amro Alammari, Duaa Khalil, Ziad Alharbi, Maha A. Albahiti, Sarah K. PLoS One Research Article Little is known about the obstacles medical students face when conducting research in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, the proportion of medical students in research has been unknown in our region compared to other regions. We sought to identify the barriers and motivators that influence undergraduate medical students in pursuing research. This was a cross-sectional study design, utilizing an online survey distributed through social media platforms from the 17(th) of December 2021 to the 8(th) of April 2022. The survey was distributed to four universities in Saudi Arabia. Participants’ characteristics, details regarding involvement in research, and attitude towards research were collected. Frequency measures were used to characterize the demographics and chi-squared tests to determine associations. A total of 435 students were included in the final analysis. The highest proportion of students that responded were second year, followed by first year medical students. Less than half (47.6%) of medical students were involved in research. A significant correlation was revealed between the involvement in research and higher participants’ Grade Point Average (GPA). The top three incentives for pursuing undergraduate research were “admission into residency programs” (44.8%), “interest in research” (28.7%), and “financial return” (10.8%). However, the top three limitations were “lack of time” (29.2%), “lack of mentoring” (16.8%), and “lack of interest in research” (14.7%). System-related barriers and motivators were the main reasons behind the involvement of medical students in research. Our study is a call for action to raise awareness among medical students about the importance of research and to provide solutions to overcome these barriers. Public Library of Science 2023-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10138799/ /pubmed/37104288 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284990 Text en © 2023 Alhabib et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Alhusseini, Noara
Aboalsamh, Anas G.
Adi, Ghaith
Ismail, Aya
Hajja, Amro
Alammari, Duaa
Khalil, Ziad
Alharbi, Maha A.
Albahiti, Sarah K.
Motivators and barriers to research participation among medical students in Saudi Arabia
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title_full Motivators and barriers to research participation among medical students in Saudi Arabia
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title_short Motivators and barriers to research participation among medical students in Saudi Arabia
title_sort motivators and barriers to research participation among medical students in saudi arabia
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10138799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37104288
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284990
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