TABLE 1.
Knowledge, attitude and practice of evidence-based practice in prevention of mother-to-child transmission.
| Item | n | Mean | SD |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge | |||
| Converting information needs to research questions | 81 | 2.20 | 0.95 |
| Research skills | 81 | 2.26 | 0.93 |
| Awareness of major information types/sources | 81 | 2.42 | 0.84 |
| Information technology skills | 81 | 2.46 | 0.93 |
| Knowledge of how to retrieve evidence | 79 | 2.49 | 0.93 |
| Ability to critically analyse evidence against set standards | 81 | 2.53 | 0.98 |
| Monitoring and reviewing of practice skills | 81 | 2.64 | 0.89 |
| Ability to determine how valid material is | 81 | 2.65 | 0.85 |
| Ability to determine how useful material is | 81 | 2.91 | 0.86 |
| Ability to identify gaps in professional practice | 81 | 3.17 | 0.84 |
| Ability to apply information to individual cases | 80 | 3.33 | 0.77 |
| Dissemination of new ideas about care to colleagues | 81 | 3.35 | 0.86 |
| Ability to review own practice | 81 | 3.54 | 0.86 |
| Sharing of ideas and information with colleagues | 81 | 3.56 | 0.88 |
| Attitude | |||
| Workload too great to keep up to date with evidence | 81 | 2.59 | 1.49 |
| Recent clinical practice being questioned | 81 | 3.26 | 1.11 |
| Stick to tried and trusted methods rather than change | 81 | 3.40 | 1.33 |
| EBP is a waste of time | 81 | 4.27 | 1.00 |
| Practice | |||
| Accessed the Cochrane database of systematic review | 81 | 0.42 | 0.84 |
| Critically appraised evidence from a research | 81 | 0.42 | 0.70 |
| Shared evidence from research with multidisciplinary team | 81 | 0.47 | 0.77 |
| Read and critically appraised clinical research | 81 | 0.49 | 0.79 |
| Informally discussed evidence from research | 81 | 0.51 | 0.72 |
| Used EBP guideline to change practice | 81 | 0.57 | 0.75 |
| Generated a Population Intervention Comparison Outcome (PICO) question about clinical practice | 81 | 0.59 | 0.93 |
| Shared evidence from a study in form of report/presentation | 81 | 0.60 | 0.94 |
| Shared evidence from a research study with patient/family | 81 | 0.64 | 0.95 |
| Evaluated the outcome of a practice change | 81 | 0.81 | 0.92 |
| Changed practice based on patient outcome data | 81 | 0.86 | 0.97 |
| Evaluated a care initiative by collecting patient outcome data | 81 | 0.93 | 0.97 |
| Shared EBP guidelines | 81 | 0.99 | 1.13 |
| Promoted the use of EBP to colleagues | 80 | 1.00 | 1.10 |
| Shared patient outcome data with colleagues | 81 | 1.01 | 1.05 |
| Used evidence to change clinical practice | 81 | 1.02 | 1.07 |
| Collected data on a patient problem | 81 | 1.43 | 1.25 |
EBP, evidence-based practice.