Does research training change allied health clinicians’ evidence-based practice?

Does research training change allied health clinicians’ evidence-based

practice?

Anna Wong Shee,^1,2 Renee Clapham,¹ Owen Howlett,^3,4 Olivia King,⁵ Marcus Gardner,³ Drew Aras,⁶ Vincent Versace²

1. Ballarat Health Services 2. Deakin University 3. Bendigo Health 4. LaTrobe University 5. Barwon Health 6. Western Alliance

Patient outcomes improve with evidence-based practice

Research skills can help close the evidence-practice gap

Substantial lag between generation of

evidence to it becoming usual practice

EOI

Two workshops

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research question, PICO, protocol

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audit, interviews/focus groups, survey

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project presentations

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reviewing and critiquing

Mentors

23 item evidence-based practice – knowledge, attitudes and practices survey (EBP-KAP)

Ritchie (2018)

One-to-one semi-structured

interviews

EBP-KAP survey (N=31)

Domain Mean score (SD)

Knowledge 85.65 (7.37)

Attitudes 81.89 (8.38)

Professional practice and learning 77.69 (7.94)

Information retrieval 75.13 (10.06)

Interviews (N=8)

• valued the skills and knowledge gained

• advantages of social nature of the

program

Interactive with teams, able to feed

off each other and develop new ideas Practice the key

learnings on our own research

projects

Acknowledgements

Laura Alston, Alison Beauchamp, Belinda Bilney, Jaclyn Bishop, Katherine Cape, Jeremy Caunt,

Deb Greenslade, Andrea Hernan, Kylie McKenzie, Deepa Kuriachan, Kevin McNamara, Deb Pascoe, Genevieve Pepin, Gemma Siemensma,

Dana Sullivan, Sevi Vassos