Determining the Effects of an Evidence-Based Practice Education Intervention Program Applied to Nursing Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Determining the Effects of an Evidence-Based Practice Education Intervention Program Applied to Nursing Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial
It was planned to evaluate the effectiveness of the evidence-based practice education intervention program in 3rd year students of the Faculty of Nursing on their knowledge, attitude, behavior and future use of evidence-based practice, and their awareness and attitudes towards research and developments.
The study was parallel group (experimental-control), randomized controlled experimental design with pretest-posttest design.
It was carried out in 3rd year students of nursing department of Selçuk University Faculty of Nursing in Konya province.
Study data were collected from 108 students between February 2023 and June 2023. Nursing students in the intervention (n = 54) and control groups (n = 54) were determined by randomization method.
A total of 12 hours of Evidence-Based Education intervention was applied to students in the intervention group, spread over 7 sessions. The educational intervention was created in line with the literature. No application was given to the students in the control group. Data were collected using the Students' Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior Towards Evidence-Based Nursing Scale and the Nursing Students' Awareness and Attitudes Towards Research and Developments in Nursing Scale.
Paired Sample T test and Wilcoxon test will be used in pre-test and post-test comparisons. Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis, One Way Anova test will be applied to determine the difference between groups. Statistical significance level was accepted as p˂0.05.
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