All participants will be asked to answer the Adapted Fresno Test or the AFT [ 24] for baseline or pre- assessment of their knowledge and skills to EBP, and the Questions on attitudes to EBP [ 25], for baseline or pre- assessment of their attitudes to EBP.
Educators can assess different dimensions of EBP learning, including reaction to initial exposure to EBP, knowledge attainment, or the ability to use EBP skills to improve patient care.
Three months post EBP training, a third set of answers to the Adapted Fresno test and the Questions on attitudes to EBP, will be obtained from both groups to measure if knowledge, skills and attitudes to EBP were sustained over the three month period in the EBP intervention group and to measure the stability of knowledge, skills and attitudes to EBP of the control group.
Together, these results suggest a potential staff and organizational benefit to EBP implementation and we discuss implications of the findings relative to EBPs and to fidelity monitoring.
Investigators at the hospitals that were chosen for the study were interested in EBP, so it is likely that these sites had more exposure to EBP.
The Questions to EBP attitudes [ 25] will be used to assess the attitudes domain of EBP in this study.
Our findings indicated that males were significantly more confident in their EBP knowledge and skills while females were more positive in their attitudes and sympathy to EBP.
The contextually designed EBP training program for Filipino physical therapists was effective in improving knowledge, skills and attitudes to EBP from pre to post training.
This tailored, multifaceted EBP program builds on the concept of effective education, training and peer support as key solution to overcome barriers to EBP in developing countries.
One way of considering the internal and external contingencies related to EBP implementation is discussed in the seminal piece on EBP transportability by Schoenwald and Hoagwood.
In this study a mean of 1,779.29 days (177 6,570) passed from symptom onset to EBP treatment in our center.
