Table 13.
Factors impacting the practice score.
| Characteristics | Category | Univariate analysis |
Multivariate analysis |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| β | (95%CI) | P | β | (95% CI) | P | ||
| Previous EBD training | YES | 0.896 | [0.602–1.19] | <.001 | 0.6352 | [0.392–0.878] | <.001 |
| Knowledge of PICO question formulation | YES | 1.308 | [1.072–1.54] | <.001 | 0.9063 | [0.630–1.183] | <.001 |
| Knowledge of relevant information sources | |||||||
| PubMed/Medline | YES | 0.586 | [0.221–0.95] | 0.002 | 0.1765 | [-0.137–0.490] | 0.268 |
| The Cochrane Library | YES | 0.93 | [ 0.686–1.17] | <.001 | 0.4403 | [0.2–0.68] | <.001 |
| Kind of practice | Individual | 1 | 1 | ||||
| In a group | 0.179 | [-0.143–0.501] | 0.275 | 0.0266 | [-0.254–0.307] | 0.852 | |
| Academic | 0.788 | [0.478–1.097] | <.001 | −00338 | [-0.329–0.62] | 0.822 | |
EBD: evidence-based dentistry/PICO: population, intervention, comparison, outcomes/β: Linear regression coefficient/CI: confidence interval.