... per-ceptions of barriers to, and facilitators of, research utiliza-tion and to examine the validity of the BARRIERS scale in relation to research use, i.e., the capacity of the Scale to discriminate ... to examine the validity of the BARRIERS scale in relation to research use, i.e., assess the BARRIERS scale& apos;s capacity to discriminate perceptions of barriers between research users and non -research ... research users and non- research users on the Nurse, the Research and the Presen-tation subscales, indicating that the instrument appearsuseful for identifying these types of barriers to research utilization. ...