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. 2020 Dec 29:9:365.
doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_335_20. eCollection 2020.

Evidence-based medicine among health-care workers in hospitals in Iran: A nationwide survey

Ahmad Moosavi  1 , Alireza Sadeghpour  2 , Saber Azami-Aghdash  3 , Naser Derakhshani  4 , Mohammad Mohseni  5 , Dariush Jafarzadeh  6 , Aziz Rezapour  4
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Evidence-based medicine among health-care workers in hospitals in Iran: A nationwide survey

Ahmad Moosavi et al. J Educ Health Promot. .

Abstract

Background: Evidence-based medicine (EBM) plays an important and dominant role in promoting effective decision-making in the health system. This study was aimed to evaluate the EBM performance among health-care workers (HCWs) in hospitals in Iran.

Methods: In this study (a cross-sectional study), participants were 2800 HCWs in hospitals. A researcher-made questionnaire was designed, and judgments of 10 experts were used for the improvement of content validity. The reliability of the questionnaire was assessed by the test-retest method (α = 0.85). Data were analyzed using the descriptive statistics, t-test, and one-way ANOVA, in SPSS.16 software.

Results: Eventually, 1524 questionnaires were completed (response rate: 54.4%). The results of the study show that 62%of participants have not accessed scientific journals, 52% of them have difficulties using the Internet at work, guidelines were not reachable for 76% of them, and about 80% have not access to databases. About 39% of participants were not well informed about databases of EBM, and 15.8% of them were immensely knowledgeable about EBM terminology. The most important problems to increase HCWs information about EBM include research methodology- related problems, lack of resources and motivation, and coordination problems. The most prominent facilitators include: providing training courses in EBM and increased facilities. Only work experience showed a significant correlation with barriers and facilitators, and gender revealed a significant correlation with barriers (P < 0.05).

Conclusion: It seems that prioritizing the increased access to information resources and databases, considering the research skills of the HCWs, extending the opportunities and increasing the facilities such as workforce, equipment, physical environment, and accessibility can have a great impact on the improvement of the activities associated with EBM.

Keywords: Barriers; evidence-based medicine; facilitators; health care workers; hospitals.

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