The evidence-based practice beliefs and implementation scales: Psychometric properties of two new instruments

Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 208-216

  Melnyk, Bernadette Mazurek ^a   Fineout Overholt, Ellen ^a   Mays, Mary Z ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Evidence based practice; Measurement; Nursing; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE BELIEF SCALE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE IMPLEMENTATION SCALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDITY;

EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; NURSES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 57349182494     PISSN: 1545102X     EISSN: 17416787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6787.2008.00126.x     Document Type: Article

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