From: Measuring evidence-based practice knowledge and skills in occupational therapy—a brief instrument
Author (year) | Original source (date)/Name of instrument (where applicable) | Location | Participants | Study design | EBP attributes measured | Instrument structure | Purpose of instrument |
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Bennett, Tooth, McKenna, Rodger, Strong, Ziviani, Mickan and Gibson [29] | Adapted from McColl, Smith, White and Field [30] | Australia | Members of OT Australia (n = 649) | Cross-sectional | Confidence in skills related to the acquire and appraise steps in the EBP process | Self-report with 4 sections; 5 questions with a 5-point rating scale for this attribute | Descriptive |
Dysart & Tomlin [31] | NA | United States | Random sample of members of the American Occupational Therapy Association (n = 209) | Cross-sectional | Skills | Self-report with 3 sections containing dichotomous, 4-point scale, 5-point Likert scale and open-ended responses | Descriptive |
MacDermid, Solomon, Law, Russell and Stratford [5] | Modified knowledge, attitude and behavior questionnaire [15] | Canada | Physical and occupational therapists (n = 144) | Randomised controlled trial | Knowledge | Subjective (self-report) and objective items using mainly 5-point scales, dichotomous scales and numerical items | Evaluative |
McCluskey [32] | Adapted from Upton and Lewis [33] | New South Wales, Australia | OTs attending an EBP workshop (n = 67) | Cross-sectional | Knowledge and skills related to the ask, acquire, appraise and apply steps | Self-report containing 7 items for knowledge and skills respectively; 3-point rating scale | Descriptive |
McCluskey and Lovarini [6] | Based on Bennett, Tooth, McKenna, Rodger, Strong, Ziviani, Mickan and Gibson [29] and Upton and Lewis [33] | Australia | OTs attending an EBP workshop (n = 114) | Before-after study | Knowledge and perceived skill in the ask, acquire, appraise and apply steps | Self-report with 17 items in Section 3 measuring these attributes; mix of objective and self-report items; 3-point rating scale | Descriptive |
McCluskey and Lovarini [6] | Adapted Fresno Test of Competence in EBP | Australia | OTs attending an EBP workshop (n = 114) | Before-after study | EBP knowledge and skills – developing a PICO question, searching for evidence and appraising evidence | Objective assessment with 7 open-ended questions based on clinical scenarios; scored with a grading rubric (scoring range: 0 to 156) | Evaluative |
Pain, Hagler and Warren [34] | Edmonton Research Orientation Survey (EROS) | Province in the West of Canada | OTs in 2 large urban and 2 rural/small urban areas (n = 58) | Cross-sectional | Self-rated knowledge of research concepts | 38 items rated on a 5-point Likert scale; an overall score and sub-scale scores are calculated | Descriptive |
Upton and Lewis [33] | Wales, United Kingdom | Podiatrists (n = 38), OTs (n = 84), physiotherapists (n = 135) and speech therapists (n = 38) | Cross-sectional | Perceived knowledge and skills of EBP and its individual steps | Self-report with 5 sections using varying question formats (visual analogue scales, semantic differentials, 5-point scales and space for comments) | Descriptive |