Factors facilitating clinical application of and adherence to evidence-based healthcare among medical professionals attending national competitions in Taiwan: a study based on the decomposed theory of planned behaviour.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Implementing evidence-based healthcare (EBHC) to improve the quality of patient care is a key issue for physicians and nurses. One of the most effective activities for achieving this is the annual topic-oriented clinical application national competition in Taiwan. Hundreds of clinical issues have been presented in this competition. By using the decomposed theory of planned behaviour (DTPB), this study explored physicians' and nurses' behaviour and adherence to the clinical application of EBHC after participating in the competitions.

Methods

We conducted a 3-month cross-sectional online survey using a structured questionnaire adapted from the original study of the DTPB to collect behavioural and intention-related data. We also used a model of seven action stages (f

SUBMITTER: Tsai JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9284906 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature