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Student 4 Best Evidence as a Tool to Improve Evidence-Based Practice Competencies

NCT03707119 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 70

Last updated 2018-10-16

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Summary

Objective. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational program, based on Students 4 Best Evidence (S4BE) Blog, on Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) competencies (attitudes, knowledge and skills) through an EBP laboratory, in undergraduate students of Physiotherapy.

Design. An observational perspective study. Setting. Physiotherapy School of Italian University. Participants. 70 undergraduate physiotherapist students of the first year, of both genders, were included. Mean age was 20.48+/-3.20 years and 66% were male and 34% were female.

Interventions. The intervention consisted of the use of S4BE to teach EBP competence. The section S4BE "about" has been used to teach the EBP principles and their key steps and the section S4BE "topics" has been used to teach critical thinking and the clinical practice in rehabilitation for a total of 24 training hours.

Main Outcome Measure. The evidence-based practice questionnaire (EBP2Q) has been used to evaluate EBP attitude, knowledge and skills, at the start of laboratory (T0), after 24 training hours (T1) and after 3 months of clinical practice training (follow-up). Statistical analysis was performed with SPSS 17.0 An intra-group analysis has been conducted to verify the improvement during the time. Statistically significant was set at p\<0.05.

Conditions

  • Undergraduate Health Professional Students

Interventions

OTHER

Educational programme

the health professional students were undergone to Student 4 Best Evidence blog, as a specific educational programme to learn EBP competencies.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Chiara Arienti, PhD · Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-01-15
Primary Completion
2018-03-30
Completion
2018-06-15

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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