TABLE 3.

Education, attitudes and beliefs, and interest and perceived role in evidence-based practice.

Item	N	Response (%)
		Disagree	Neutral	Agree
Education, knowledge and skills
I learned the foundations for EBP as part of my academic preparation	121	14.0	18.2	67.7
I received formal training in search strategies for finding research relevant to my practice	121	33.0	14.0	52.9
I received formal training in how to critically evaluate research literature as part of my academic preparation	121	52.9	17.4	29.7
Attitudes or beliefs
Application of EBP is necessary in the practice of physical therapy	121	0.8	1.7	97.5
Literature and research findings are useful in my day-to-day practice	121	0.0	7.4	92.6
The adoption of EBP places an unreasonable demand on physical therapists	121	66.1	9.1	24.8
EBP improves the quality of patient care	121	2.5	8.3	89.2
EBP helps me make decisions about patient care	121	9.1	9.1	81.8
EBP does not take into account patient preferences	121	69.4	16.5	14.0
Interest or perceived role
I need to increase the use of evidence in my daily practice	121	0.0	1.7	98.3
I am interested in learning or improving the skills necessary to incorporate EBP into my practice	121	8.3	6.6	85.1
Physical therapists should be responsible for conducting their own literature reviews to answer their clinical questions	121	24.8	22.3	52.9
Physical therapists should be responsible for critically evaluating the quality of the literature to address their clinical questions	121	21.5	9.1	69.4
Physical therapists should be responsible for interpreting whether research findings apply to their individual patients	121	16.5	10.7	72.7

EBP, evidence-based practice; N, number.