Exploring knowledge, attitudes, and barriers toward the use of evidence-based practice amongst academic health care practitioners in their teaching in a South African university: A pilot study

Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 90-97

  McInerney, Patricia ^a   Suleman, Fatima ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Barriers; Evidence based practice; Health care practitioners; Knowledge; Research; Teaching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED NURSING; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING RESEARCH; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING; FACULTY, NURSING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING RESEARCH; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 77953729564     PISSN: 1545102X     EISSN: 17416787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6787.2009.00180.x     Document Type: Article

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