EBP Educational Programme in Nursing Students' EBP Beliefs and Knowledge, and the Extent of Their EBP Implementation

NCT03411668 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: EBP_Educ_Nurs
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 149
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Evidence-based practice (EBP) prevents unsafety/inefficiency and improves healthcare quality. However, EBP implementation and sustainment are challenging for healthcare organizations and providers considering gaps between research and practice. An educational preparation of the future healthcare professionals can minimize these gaps. Thus, it is mandatory that undergraduate curricula in health sciences, namely in nursing, promote an EBP culture so that future health professionals use it into clinical practice. Within the Portuguese context, there is no available scientific literature about the current state of EBP integration in the undergraduate nursing curricula. Thereby, the investigators intend to verify if an EBP educational programme would be successful in improving the undergraduate nursing students' EBP knowledge and beliefs and, and the extent of their EBP implementation This will be tested using a prospective cluster randomized control trial with two-armed parallel group design.

Conditions

Evidence-Based Nursing

Keywords

undergraduate nursing students; evidence based practice beliefs; evidence based practice knowledge; evidence based practice implementation; Evidence based practice Education programme

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change from Baseline in the participant's Evidence Based Practice knowledge

  Outcome measure: "Fresno Test" of Ramos, Schafer, \& Tracz (2003) - adapted to nursing students and Portuguese population

  Post-intervention assessment (week 18)

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Change from Baseline in the participant's Evidence Based Practice beliefs

  Post-intervention assessment (week 18)

• Change from Baseline in the participant's Evidence Based Practice implementation

  Post-intervention assessment (week 18)

Study Arms (2)

EBP Educational Programme

EXPERIMENTAL

The educational EBP programme will include 12 hours of classroom lessons regarding EBP more 6 hours of mentorship made to a small groups of students (2 or 3 students per group).

Other: EBP Educational Programme

Usual Educational Programme

NO INTERVENTION

Without intervention. The participants in this group will be maintain usual educational programme.

Interventions

EBP Educational Programme OTHER

The educational EBP programme will include 12 hours of classroom lessons regarding EBP more 6 hours of mentorship made to a small groups of students (2 or 3 students per group).

EBP Educational Programme

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Undergraduate nursing students, aged 18 years or older, attending the 8th semester of the degree course in nursing at a nursing school in Portugal

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra: lead
• University of Coimbra: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

ESEnfC

Coimbra, 3046-851, Portugal

Location

Related Publications (16)

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  PMID: 23557503 BACKGROUND

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  PMID: 25390076 BACKGROUND

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  PMID: 25057657 BACKGROUND

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  PMID: 15634359 BACKGROUND

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  PMID: 25394811 BACKGROUND

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  PMID: 19076922 BACKGROUND

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  PMID: 24447399 BACKGROUND

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  PMID: 20411864 BACKGROUND

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  PMID: 12574047 BACKGROUND

• Directorate-General of Health, Ministry of Health. (2012). National Health Plan 2012-2016. Lisbon, Portugal: author. Retrieved from http://pns.dgs.pt/pns-versao-completa/

  BACKGROUND

• International Council of Nurses. (2012). Closing the Gap: from Evidence to Action. Geneva: author. ISBN: 978-92-95094-75-8

  BACKGROUND

• Ordem dos Enfermeiros. (2006). Tomada de Posição sobre Investigação em Enfermagem. Lisboa: author. Retrieved from http://www.ordemenfermeiros.pt/tomadasposicao/Documents/TomadaPosicao_26Abr2006.pdf

  BACKGROUND

• Mohsen, M. M., Safaan, N. A., & Okby, O. M. (2016). Nurses' Perceptions and Barriers for Adoption of Evidence Based Practice in Primary Care: Bridging the Gap. American Journal of Nursing Research, 4(2), 25-33.

  BACKGROUND

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  PMID: 21631749 BACKGROUND

Study Officials

• Daniela Cardoso, RN

  UICISA: E, ESEnfC/Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: The assignment to the arms will be made by an independent researcher using random.org.
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Researcher Grant Holder

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 20, 2018
• First Posted: January 26, 2018
• Study Start: February 14, 2018
• Primary Completion: June 22, 2018
• Study Completion: June 22, 2018
• Last Updated: January 23, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-01

Locations

PT (1)