Attitudes, awareness, and barriers toward evidence-based practice in orthodontics

Evidence-based practice in chiropractic practice: A survey of chiropractors’ knowledge, skills, use of research literature and barriers to the use of research evidence

“…This finding was consistent with results of studies involving physiotherapists, orthodontists, occupational therapists, and speech language therapists [16,18,23,[33][34][35][36][37]. While previous studies have shown that health professionals express confidence in identifying and reviewing research literature, they typically report a much lower level of knowledge about common research terms (for instance, odds ratios) and specific strategy skills ( for instance, correct usage of Boolean A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t search terms) [18,34,36,37]. This leads to the question of whether the confidence health professionals express about EBP skills is well founded.…”

“…The most commonly reported barrier is limited time, which constrains the identification and interpretation of research evidence, as well as the ability to apply research findings in clinical practice [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. Other common barriers include an inability to determine the legitimacy of research findings; deficient information retrieval skills; insufficient research literature on specific patient problems; lack of generalisability of research findings; and an inability to incorporate patient preferences into the decisionmaking process [5,6,11,13,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26].…”

Effectiveness of a program on evidence-based dentistry in dental students

“…Students of general dentistry are the most appropriate group to fulfill the skills required for EBP by passing EBD courses. [311] Based on the present study, with the improved scores in the fields of knowledge and attitude in the intervention group, evidence-based dental education program offered in the community-dentistry course of Islamic Azad University was successful and effective.…”

“…Most respondents expressed a low level of knowledge with positive attitudes. [3] The study of Khami et al . in 2012 in Iran showed that 80% of dental students reported low knowledge on EBD, and more than 85% of them knew a little about databases used in EBD.…”

Informing Evidence Based Decisions: Usage Statistics for Online Journal Databases

“…Several barriers have been identified by researchers, including: lack of access and limited awareness of research results (Wallace, Nwosu and Clarke, 2012); lack of practical use of systematic reviews (Wallace et al, 2012); lack of organizational culture or supports (e.g. behaviour of supervisors, frontline staff and other professionals in the organization) (Rapp et al, 2010); lack of time (Solomons & Spross, 2011); ambiguous and conflicting research (Madhavji, Araujo, Kim & Buschang, 2011;Ubbink et al, 2011) or research having methodological inadequacies (O'Connor & Pettigrew, 2009); lack of skills, training or tools to acquire, assess, synthesize, disseminate and apply research evidence to inform policy related to health systems (Ubbink, Guyatt & Vermeulen, 2013); lack of applicability/relevance of research (Humphries, Stafinski, Mumtaz & Menon, 2014); lack of standard knowledge translation strategies and processes effective in multiple contexts (Humphries et al, 2014); lack of timely research outputs (Oliver, Innvar, Lorenc, Woodman & Thomas, 2014;van der Arend, 2014); and lack of interaction and collaboration between researchers and policymakers (Oliver et al, 2014;Wooding, Hanney, Pollitt, Grant & Buxton, 2014). A significant challenge for health system practitioners (both in a clinical setting and in public service) in implementing research evidence is inadequate access to information, which results in doctors or analysts being unaware of the research (Brownson et al, 2014;Oliver et al, 2014;Ubbink et al, 2013;Ubbink et al, 2011;Wallace et al, 2012).…”