Evidence-Based Practice: Beliefs, Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviors of Physical Therapists
| العنوان: | Evidence-Based Practice: Beliefs, Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviors of Physical Therapists |
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| المؤلفون: | Cheryl Batty, Laura Ogilvie, Kimberly Bacon, Danielle Volk, Jessica C Hill, Melissa Carlson, Richard D Hemingway, Amanda Ferland, Diane U. Jette |
| المصدر: | Physical Therapy. 83:786-805 |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford University Press (OUP), 2003. |
| سنة النشر: | 2003 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adult, Male, Physical Therapy Specialty, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, medicine.medical_specialty, Time Factors, Evidence-based practice, Attitude of Health Personnel, media_common.quotation_subject, MEDLINE, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Sample (statistics), Burnout, Logistic regression, Surveys and Questionnaires, medicine, Humans, Quality (business), Practice Patterns, Physicians', Association (psychology), Burnout, Professional, Physical Therapy Modalities, media_common, Evidence-Based Medicine, Middle Aged, United States, Critical appraisal, Physical therapy, Female, Societies, Psychology, Clinical psychology |
| الوصف: | Background and Purpose. Little research has been done regarding the attitudes and behaviors of physical therapists relative to the use of evidence in practice. The purposes of this study were to describe the beliefs, attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors of physical therapist members of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) as they relate to evidence-based practice (EBP) and to generate hypotheses about the relationship between these attributes and personal and practice characteristics of the respondents. Methods. A survey of a random sample of physical therapist members of APTA resulted in a 48.8% return rate and a sample of 488 that was fairly representative of the national membership. Participants completed a questionnaire designed to determine beliefs, attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors regarding EBP, as well as demographic information about themselves and their practice settings. Responses were summarized for each item, and logistic regression analyses were used to examine relationships among variables. Results. Respondents agreed that the use of evidence in practice was necessary, that the literature was helpful in their practices, and that quality of patient care was better when evidence was used. Training, familiarity with and confidence in search strategies, use of databases, and critical appraisal tended to be associated with younger therapists with fewer years since they were licensed. Seventeen percent of the respondents stated they read fewer than 2 articles in a typical month, and one quarter of the respondents stated they used literature in their clinical decision making less than twice per month. The majority of the respondents had access to online information, although more had access at home than at work. According to the respondents, the primary barrier to implementing EBP was lack of time. Discussion and Conclusion. Physical therapists stated they had a positive attitude about EBP and were interested in learning or improving the skills necessary to implement EBP. They noted that they needed to increase the use of evidence in their daily practice. |
| تدمد: | 1538-6724 0031-9023 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ptj/83.9.786 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::4aa1c0329d8abbfa45acc369c3b8f58c https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/83.9.786 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....4aa1c0329d8abbfa45acc369c3b8f58c |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15386724 00319023 |
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| DOI: | 10.1093/ptj/83.9.786 |