An interventional study: impact of an evidence-based medicine educational program on knowledge, attitude, and practice of physicians in Benha University Hospitals

Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Barriers to Practice Regarding Evidence Based Medicine among Doctors in National Liver Institute, Menoufia University, Egypt

“…As regards to the participants' knowledge of different EBM resources, nearly half of the participants (47.3%) knew about EBM from BMJ. This result showed a higher awareness regarding EBM from BMJ than the investigation of Abd AL-Magied et al (12) (Menoufia Governorate, Egypt) and Hassan et al (10) (Benha, Egypt) wherein just 28.6% and 27.3% of respondents, respectively, indicated knowledge of that resource (16,17) but unlikely it was lower than that obtained by Al-Kubaisi et al (20) (Doha, Qatar), Abdel-Kareem et al (9) (Tanta, Egypt) and Dabaghian et al (19) (Iran), in which 69.2%, 60.5% and 60.1%, respectively reported awareness of that resource. Additionally, 11.3% of participants reported they have previously made decisions using EBM from BMJ.…”

“…Many studies are carried out to assess (KAP) of healthcare workers towards evidencebased medicine especially in developed countries (8) . In Egypt, relatively few investigations have been performed to explore knowledge of health care providers toward evidence-based medicine, the ability to get to and critically appraise evidence and the obstacles hindering the development from opinionbased to evidence-based practice (9)(10)(11)(12)(13) .…”