Notes.
1. Respondents could provide multiple responses.
2. Includes carers, homeless people, people with substance use issues,
and refugees.
Views on using research in adult social
care
The survey items measuring views on using research in adult social care
were presented as a ten-point rating scale. Scores anchored at ‘1’
represented a positive response (entirely supportive, strongly agree)
and those anchored at ‘10’ represented a negative response (entirely
unsupportive, strongly disagree). Table 3 shows that survey respondents
were broadly positive in their views about different aspects of research
in practice settings. They were most positive about their own ‘views on
using research to inform practice’ and the benefits for ‘service
users/the people I work with’ (87% and 84% respectively). Research was
largely felt to be relevant to ‘my day-to-day work’ and respondents
disagreed with the statement that ‘thinking about research is not a good
use of my time’ (77% and 74% respectively). Respondents overall gave a
more mixed response to two measures, where 47% disagreed with the
statement that ‘research is of limited value in social care…’ and
50% reported a ‘very good’ to ‘good’ level of ability to ‘apply
research to practice’.