This assessment was key to understanding the potentials of this microfluidic multiplexed immunoassay platform and was a valuable tool to determine efficacy for translational research efforts in the quantitative measurement of multiple protein biomarkers in real clinical samples.
An emerging body of scholarly literature (many of the papers published or summarized in this journal [e.g., Lopatto, 2004, 2007; Balster et al., 2010; Prunuske et al., 2013; Kabacoff et al., 2013], publications from the Council on Undergraduate Research and others) is demonstrating the efficacy of research experiences for undergraduates in science.
Self-efficacy for doing research was similar among the premed and non premed groups as well.
None of the students who were interviewed had high self-efficacy for doing research when they began their UR experiences.
Though that group contained a small number of subjects, the importance of investigating a new program contribution to FPs self-efficacy for future research was evident.
Four themes from our mixed-methods analysis provide insight into the program and implications for its future use around the topics of: benefits of the collaborative nature of the program, improved self-efficacy for integrating research evidence, need for more detailed understanding of statistics, and belief that patient care was improved by informing clinical practice with research evidence.
Four themes informing feasibility of the program relate to 1) the collaborative nature of the program; 2) improved self-efficacy for using research evidence to inform practice; 3) the need for greater learning around statistics; and 4) participant expectation that the list of evidence-based practices developed and agreed to by the group would lead to better patient outcomes.
These group differences in levels of research self-efficacy remained even when accounting for research productivity (i.e., number of first-authored, peer-reviewed publications normalized for amount of time in training; unpublished data).
Acupuncture has recently been increasingly introduced and popularised in Western societies, thus increasing the demand for research on its efficacy.
Whereas the influence of exclusion criteria on treatment outcome is a topic in research on AETs, this is not the case for research on psychotherapy efficacy trials (PETs).
