Undergraduate Health Professional Students Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Effectiveness of Student 4 Best Evidence as a Tool to Improve Evidence-Based Practice Competencies in Undergraduate Health Professional Students: a Pilot Study
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.
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