| Author country year | Aim and research questions | Subjects and study setting | Theoretical framework or model | Method/design Measurements instruments | Reliability | Validity analysis |
| 1) McCance et al. 2007 UK | To identify strategic priorities to inform the development of a regional strategy for nursing and midwifery research and development | Purposive sample N = 105 Healthcare organisations higher education institutions, research funders, join appointees, representatives from government and professional bodies, commissioners of healthcare services and lead researchers from other disciplines | R&D agenda for nursing and midwifery Northern Ireland | Combined design Two data collections Delphi technique and nominal group technique (NGT) Mail survey, 24 items, 5 point Likert scale | Not reported | Content validity Face validity by two independent researchers SPSS |
| 2) Martinez 2012 Cuba | To assess the results of a strategy implemented to develop nursing capacity for health systems and service research | Nursing managers n = 32 (pilot-test) Survey N = 105 nursing managers | Literature review and bibliometric analysis | Combined design Quasi-experimental Survey | Not reported | Face validity Pilot test Situation analysis Descriptive analysis, percentages |
| 3) Akerjordet et al. 2012 Norway | To determine clinical nurses’ interest in and motivation for research. An additional aim was to identify management and organisational resources to improve nurses’ research capacity in practice. | N = 364 clinical nurses | Literature review | Cross-sectional survey, 59 items, 5-point Likert scale | Cronbach alpha test 0.91 - 0.98 Overall alpha 0.99. | Content validity SPSS Descriptive analysis, means, standard deviation and percentages were calculated as well as frequencies to summarize and compress distributions of data |
| 4) Corchon et al. 2011 Spain | To evaluate a contextually framed intervention to increase nursing research capacity among clinical nurses | n = 89 Control group n = 81 Clinical nurses, ward manager, mentors. | Literature review | Quasi-experimental design, 27 items and 42 items | Cronbach alpha test and re-test t-Student test; t = 0.04, p = 0.92 Correlation 0.70 | Content validity Descriptive comparative analysis ANOVA t-tests for paired samples |
| 5) Brown et al. 2010 USA | To explore the relationships between perceived barriers to research use and the implementation of evidence-based practice and to investigate the barriers as predictors of implementation of evidence-based practice | A convenience sample of hospital nurses N = 1301 Four hospitals | Not specified | Cross-sectional Survey Barriers scale, 29 items, 5-point Likert scale. Evidence-Based Practice (EBPQ) Questionnaire, 24 items, 7-point Likert scale | Cronbach alpha test and re-test 0.80, 0.80 + 0.72 and 0.65 for each subscale EBPQ 0.87 in total 0.85 for Practice, 0.79 for Attitudes, and 0.92 for Knowledge | Content validity Construct validity Correlational analysis Hierarchical multiple regression analysis |
| 6) Akerjordet et al. 2012 Norway | To examine clinical nurses’ research capacity and investigate related factors (i.e. the different phases of the research process). | N = 364 clinical nurses | Literature review | Cross-sectional survey 59 items, 5-point Likert scale | Cronbach alpha Pearson’s correlation coefficients | Content validity Principal component analysis |