Disparities in scientific research activity between doctors and nurses working in the Peruvian health care system: Analysis of a nationally representative sample
Journal
PLOS ONE
ISSN
1932-6203
Date Issued
2022
Author(s)
Angélica Vergara-Mejía
Roberto Niño-Garcia
Ludwing Zeta-Solis
Percy Soto-Becerra
Ali Al-kassab-Córdova
Reneé Pereyra-Elías
Edward Mezones-Holguin
Type
Resource Types::text::journal::journal article
URL Institutional Repository
Abstract
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<jats:title>Aim</jats:title>
<jats:p>To evaluate disparities in the frequency of scientific activity between medical doctors and nurses in Peru.</jats:p>
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<jats:title>Methods</jats:title>
<jats:p>We carried out a secondary data analysis of the National Health Services Users’ Satisfaction Survey (ENSUSALUD), 2016. This nationally representative survey evaluates doctors and nurses working in clinical settings. We defined scientific activity as i) having published an original article (journal indexed in Web of Science, Scopus or Medline); and ii) having authored an abstract in a national or international conference. We estimated crude and adjusted disparities prevalence ratios (aDPR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI).</jats:p>
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<jats:title>Results</jats:title>
<jats:p>We included 2025 doctors and 2877 nurses in the analysis; 71% of doctors doctor were male, and 93% of nurses were female (p<0.001). Among doctors, 13.9% had published an article, and 8.4% presented an abstract at a conference in the last two years, while these proportions were 0.6% and 2.5% for nurses, respectively. The adjusted models showed that doctors, when compared to nurses, were approximately 27 times likely to have published a paper (aDPR = 27.86; 95% CI 10.46 to 74.19) and twice as likely to have authored a conference abstract (aDPR = 2.51; 95% CI 1.39 to 4.53).</jats:p>
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<jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title>
<jats:p>There are important disparities in scientific activity between doctors and nurses working in clinical settings in Peru. Disparities are more significant for article publication than for authoring in conference abstracts. We suggest public policies that promote research dissemination between health professionals, with emphasis on nurses.</jats:p>
</jats:sec>
<jats:title>Aim</jats:title>
<jats:p>To evaluate disparities in the frequency of scientific activity between medical doctors and nurses in Peru.</jats:p>
</jats:sec>
<jats:sec id="sec002">
<jats:title>Methods</jats:title>
<jats:p>We carried out a secondary data analysis of the National Health Services Users’ Satisfaction Survey (ENSUSALUD), 2016. This nationally representative survey evaluates doctors and nurses working in clinical settings. We defined scientific activity as i) having published an original article (journal indexed in Web of Science, Scopus or Medline); and ii) having authored an abstract in a national or international conference. We estimated crude and adjusted disparities prevalence ratios (aDPR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI).</jats:p>
</jats:sec>
<jats:sec id="sec003">
<jats:title>Results</jats:title>
<jats:p>We included 2025 doctors and 2877 nurses in the analysis; 71% of doctors doctor were male, and 93% of nurses were female (p<0.001). Among doctors, 13.9% had published an article, and 8.4% presented an abstract at a conference in the last two years, while these proportions were 0.6% and 2.5% for nurses, respectively. The adjusted models showed that doctors, when compared to nurses, were approximately 27 times likely to have published a paper (aDPR = 27.86; 95% CI 10.46 to 74.19) and twice as likely to have authored a conference abstract (aDPR = 2.51; 95% CI 1.39 to 4.53).</jats:p>
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<jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title>
<jats:p>There are important disparities in scientific activity between doctors and nurses working in clinical settings in Peru. Disparities are more significant for article publication than for authoring in conference abstracts. We suggest public policies that promote research dissemination between health professionals, with emphasis on nurses.</jats:p>
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Cite this document
Vergara-Mejía, A., Niño-Garcia, R., Zeta-Solis, L., Soto-Becerra, P., Al-kassab-Córdova, A., Pereyra-Elías, R., Cabieses, B., & Mezones-Holguin, E. (2022). Disparities in scientific research activity between doctors and nurses working in the Peruvian health care system: Analysis of a nationally representative sample. PLOS ONE, 17(9), e0273031. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273031
Dataset(s)
Source code - R script for converting dataset from SPSS format to Stata v14 format.
Subjects
adult
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article
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doctor nurse relation
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female
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health care system
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human
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male
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medline
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nurse
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peru
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prevalence ratio
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public policy
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scopus
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web of science