Physiotherapists' evidence-based practice profiles by HS-EBP questionnaire in Spain: a cross-sectional normative study
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2022Autor
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10.1371/journal.pone.0269460
Resumen
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is a cost-effective approach for improving the quality of clinical
care and implementing only well-tested evidence. Health professions, especially physiotherapy,
must embrace EBP principles. This paper presents normative data from the
Spanish physiotherapist population using the Health-Sciences Evidence-Based Practice
questionnaire and explores EBP clusters/profi ...
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Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is a cost-effective approach for improving the quality of clinical
care and implementing only well-tested evidence. Health professions, especially physiotherapy,
must embrace EBP principles. This paper presents normative data from the
Spanish physiotherapist population using the Health-Sciences Evidence-Based Practice
questionnaire and explores EBP clusters/profiles of professionals in practice. An intentional
sample of 419 practicing physiotherapists was recruited from the Spanish Professional Council
of Physiotherapy. Participants completed a cross-sectional online survey with 60 Likert
items (scale 1¿10) measuring 5 dimensions: 1) Beliefs and attitudes, 2) Results from literature,
3) Professional practice, 4) Assessment of results, and 5) Barriers and Facilitators. The
protocol also included sociodemographic, training, and practice-related contrast variables.
Normative data were estimated and tabulated for each dimension and then a K-means clustering
procedure was implemented using the contrast variables. Results for normative data
showed, in descending order, the following 50th percentile values for the five EBP factors:
Beliefs and attitudes (8.25), Professional practice (8.00), Assessment of results (7.42),
Results from literature (6.71), and EBP Barriers and Facilitators (5.17); all expressed on a
scale of 1 to 10. Academic degree, EBP training level, and work time shared in healthcare
activity, research, or teaching activity were all statistically significant for discriminating EBP
dimension scores. Finally, six different clusters showed that when EBP level is low, the
scores in all dimensions are equally low, and vice-versa. The EBP dimensions "Beliefs and
attitudes", "Professional practice", and "Evaluation of results" obtained better normative
scores overall than "Search for bibliographic evidence and its inclusion in practice" and especially
"Perception of EBP barriers", which had the worst score. Normative data are useful for
comparing individual scores and the reference population, and information about clusters will
enable appropriate global EBP intervention programs to be designed and implemented. [--]
Materias
Physiotherapists,
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP),
Health-Sciences Evidence-Based Practice
questionnaire,
Surveys
Editor
Public Library of Science
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PLoS ONE 17(6): e0269460.
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Osasun Zientziak Saila
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Entidades Financiadoras
This work was supported by the Health Research Fund of the Institute of Health Carlos III [PI12/02456], Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Government of Spain and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 'A Way of Making Europe', the European Union.
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