Evidence Based Practice Essay

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Title Knowledge, Attitudes and Barriers towards the Implementation of Evidence-based Practice among Physiotherapists in Malaysia. Hannah Chay Yahui I 12001603 MPD 5998 Name of supervisor: Mr Narasimman Swaminathan INTI International University Faculty of Health Science Research proposal 1. Title of the proposed project Knowledge, attitudes and barriers towards the implementation of Evidence-based practice among physiotherapists in Malaysia 2. Need for the study and literature review The physiotherapy field has been on a rapid growth in the past few years. Many hospitals are finding physiotherapy useful as it complements the medical field. For example, in the musculoskeletal field, there is always a need for physiotherapy …show more content…

Nursing and allied health staff also had a more negative attitude on the value of EBP. Two of the highest response were that it was hard to relate the findings in clinical practice and that the value of EBP in clinical practice is exaggerated . Most of the studies found time limitation to be a barrier towards the implementation of EBP in their practice.3,5,6,7 In Malaysia however, a lack of good information technological support in the wards was listed as the main barrier.3 Additional barriers have also been noted. Many health care professional stated that they lack knowledge in appraising the articles obtained and some found it hard to generalize the research findings into patient care as there were conflicts between research evidences and patient …show more content…

4. Research hypothesis This research does not have a research hypothesis as it is an exploratory study.Not applicable 5. Objectives of the study To describe the physiotherapist's self-reports on 1. The knowledge and skills in searching and evaluating the available evidences. 2. The attitude of physiotherapists towards the value of EBP. 3. The perceived barriers towards its implementation of EBP. And 4. To suggest ways to improve the implementation in EBP in Malaysia. 6. Materials and methods a. Study design: Survey, in the form of a questionnaire b. Inclusion and exclusion criteria Subjects will be recruited from the Malaysian Physiotherapy Association (MPA) membership pool, who ha pool, having s at least two years of working experience and is a Malaysian physiotherapist. Members who are no longer practicing will be excluded from the study. d. Sample size: 493, number of members reported in 2015, taken from www.wcpt.org, and the maximum number of sample size will be used after taking into account the inclusion and exclusion

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