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Purpose: Evidence-based medicine practice is now inevitable and health professionals are bound to understand researchconcept thoroughly to practice based on evidence. When we are talking about research, usually health professionals avoidinvolving in researches for many reasons. This study was designed to assess the fear regarding health professionals basedon a small scale designed focusing on scoring system and assess having some avoidance behavior.Methods: It was a cross-sectional study design. Between July and September 2019, a self-administered questionnaire wasdistributed through online after getting data regarding contacts details of health professionals. We have approached 600subjects in total, these participants were doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals. This health professional’s works allover the country (e.g., Ministry of Health, ministry centers, university, and private sectors). The inclusion criteria were all healthprofessionals work as registered health professionals. The Research Ethics Committee of the university approved the study.Results: The results depict out of total, 26.2% of male and 26.4% of female have high FEAR scores, and 29% of male havelow FEAR score in comparison to 18.4% of female. Health-care providers with bachelor show the highest FEAR score about27.7%, while those with postgraduate degrees show the lowest fear with 22.2%. A bivariate logistic regression analysis doneshows a statistically significant (P = 0.027) association seen with high fear score and age group, especially the youngestbetween 19 and 30 years and educational level (P = 0.024). Whereas, no statistically significant difference (P = 0.290) seen inthe FEAR score with working experience. No statistically significant difference (P = 0.251) seen in the FEAR score with living.Conclusion: Conclusively, the health professionals have fear about researches so need to assess its reasons for the rectificationof the problem.