Table 3.
Attitudes and perception toward EBM before and after the course.
| EBM attitude component | Total agreement |
Total disagreement |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre | Post | Pre | Post | |
| EBM has a weak effect on the practice of pharmacy | 19(29.7%) | 18(28.1%) | 45(70.3%) | 45(70.3%) |
| Clinical experience is more important than evidence | 44(68.7%) | 33(51.6%) | 20(31.3%) | 30(46.9%) |
| Patient desires are more important than medical evidence | 34(53.1%) | 31(48.4%) | 30(46.8%) | 32(50%) |
| EBM is merely a passing fashion and that it would disappear soon | 7(11%) | 12(18.7%) | 57(89.1%) | 51(79.7) |
| Systematic reviews important in decision-making | 51(79.6%) | 56(87.4%) | 13(20.3%) | 7(10.9%) |