UK trained osteopaths' attitudes and beliefs, education, knowledge, and skills about evidence-based practice (EBP), and use of clinical guidelines. A quantitative enquiry.
Item
- Title
- UK trained osteopaths' attitudes and beliefs, education, knowledge, and skills about evidence-based practice (EBP), and use of clinical guidelines. A quantitative enquiry.
- Author(s)
- Weber, V
- Abstract
- Background and Objective: Little research has been done regarding osteopaths' attitudes and beliefs about evidence-based practice and use of clinical guidelines. In the UK, the use of EBP is still controversial and an understanding of those factors influencing its implementation in clinical practice is crucial. The purposes of this study were to explore features that influence the use of EBP amongst osteopaths in the UK and to compare their attitudes and beliefs about EBP and their use of clinical practice guidelines and research literature. Design: We used a modified online version of Jette et al, (2003) questionnaire about attitudes and beliefs, education, knowledge, and skills about evidence-based practice, and use of clinical guidelines, which was modified to ensure it was relevant to osteopathic practice. Methods: All osteopaths registered with the GOsC and who had explicitly agreed to participate in research (n= 2,010) were contacted via email invitation. Logistic regression analyses were used to determine associations between items measuring attitudes and beliefs, education, knowledge, and skills about evidence-based practice, and use of clinical guidelines with items assessing age, years since graduation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, attention to literature, and use of clinical guidelines. Results: Questionnaires were returned by 478 respondents (response rate 23.78%). Respondents had generally positive attitudes about EBP: they agreed that EBP was necessary, that literature and research findings were useful to their practice, that EBP improved quality of care, that EBP helped them to make decisions about patient care, and were interested in learning or improving skills necessary to incorporate EBP into their practice. Slightly more than half of the respondents read two to five articles a month. Close to half of the participants used professional literature and research findings in the process of clinical decision-making two to five times in a regular month. More than two thirds of the respondents were aware that practice guidelines were available online and were able to access practice guidelines online. Less than half of them agreed using practice guidelines in their practice and being able to incorporate patient preferences with practice guidelines Close to two thirds of the respondents disagreed to actively seeking practice guidelines. Critical appraisal, use of professional databases, training and familiarity with search strategies tended to be associated with younger therapists with fewer years since graduation, and therapists with a higher degree or having a research or educational position outside clinical practice. The primary barriers to use of EBP in clinical practice were lack of time, inapplicability to their patient population, an uniqueness of their patients. Discussion and Conclusion: UK osteopaths stated that they had positive attitudes about EBP and were interested in improving their skills in order to implement evidence-based medicine in their practice. Nonetheless, respondents did not seem to use ore actively search practice guidelines on a regular basis.
- presented at
- European School of Osteopathy
- Date Accepted
- 2015
- Date Submitted
- 2.12.2016 16:55:00
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 15926
- Inst-Identifier
- 1229
- Keywords
- Evidence-based practice, Osteopathy, Attitudes and Beliefs
- Recommended
- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Weber, V, “UK trained osteopaths' attitudes and beliefs, education, knowledge, and skills about evidence-based practice (EBP), and use of clinical guidelines. A quantitative enquiry.”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 5, 2025, https://www.osteopathicresearch.org/s/orw/item/555