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Bridging the gaps among research, policy and practice in ten low- and middle-income countries: Development and testing of a questionnaire for health-care providers

G Emmanuel Guindon1,2 email, John N Lavis1,2,3,4 email, Boungnong Boupha5,6 email, Guang Shi7 email, Mintou Sidibe8 email, Botagoz Turdaliyeva9,10 email and Research to Policy and Practice Study Team (RPPST) email

Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Department of Political Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

McMaster Health Forum, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

National Institute of Public Health, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Council of Medical Sciences, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic

Department of Health Policy and Regulation, Ministry of Health, Beijing, PR China

Direction des Études de la Recherche et de la Formation, Comité National d' Éthique, Dakar, Senegal

Department of Health Policy and Management, Kazakh National Medical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

10  Evidence-Based Health Centre, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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Health Research Policy and Systems 2010, 8:3doi:10.1186/1478-4505-8-3

Published: 29 January 2010

Additional files

Additional file 1:

World Health Organization/McMaster University Questionnaire on Research Use in the Health Sector.

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Additional file 2:

Sample. Table S1: Sample sizes and response rates by country and health topics. Table S2: Sampling design by country and health topics.

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Additional file 3:

Factor analyses. Additional file 3.1: Factor analyses: Awareness, access and use of electronic/online sources of information. Table S3.1-1, Table S3.1-2 and Table S3.1-3.

Additional file 3.2: Factor analyses: Awareness, access and use of paper sources of information. Table S3.2-1, Table S3.2-2: and Table S3.2-3.

Additional file 3.3: Factor analyses: Trust in types of sources of information. Table S3.3-1, Table S3.3-2 and Table S3.3-3.

Additional file 3.4: Factor analyses: Extent of research utilization. Table S3.4-1.

Additional file 3.5: Factor analyses: Attitudes to issues needed to be addressed to improve practice. Table S3.5-1, Table S3.5-2, Table S3.5-3, Table S3.5-4 and Table S3.5-5.

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