Student 4 Best Evidence as a Tool to Improve Evidence-Based Practice Competencies

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03707119
• Other study ID #: S4BE
• Status: Completed
• Start date: January 15, 2018
• Est. completion date: June 15, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: October 2018
• Source: Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 70
• Est. completion date: June 15, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: March 30, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• undergraduate physiotherapist students of the first year

• both genders

Exclusion Criteria:

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Undergraduate Health Professional Students

Intervention

Other:
• Educational programme
the health professional students were undergone to Student 4 Best Evidence blog, as a specific educational programme to learn EBP competencies.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Italy	Centro "E. Spalenza" - Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi	Rovato	Brescia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Evidence-based practice questionnaire (EBP2Q)	based on 6 domains to evaluate EBP attitude, knowledge and skills	Change from baseline EBP competencies at 24 training hours