Information on the general research background, research experience and interests of the studied hospital pharmacists is displayed in Table 2. Approximately 70% of them admitted to not having any previous experience in conducting research. However, 73% have had research-related training in the form of seminars or workshops. When further investigated, more than 75% of the hospital pharmacists were very interested or extremely interested in conducting and learning about conducting pharmacy practice-related research. When asked about their overall ability to design and conduct pharmacy practice or health-related research, 44% agreed that they had either very good or excellent abilities in undertaking research endeavors. Notably, approximately 70% of the hospital pharmacists surveyed had not published any peer-reviewed articles in a scientific journal within the last 5 years and that more than 75% of the participants had no record of any poster presentations or published abstracts in an international conference during the same timeframe.