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’.