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Level of knowledge, self-efficacy, and attitude for evidence-based practice among undergraduate nursing students

Background:As Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) has been increasingly proven as a means of cost-effective and higher-quality healthcare, it needs to be included in the undergraduate nursing program. Objective:This study is to examine the level of knowledge, self-efficacy, and attitude for EBP, and to identify its associate factors of prospective nurses as their undergraduate senior-level. Methods:A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted with a convenience sample of 190 senior nursing students in about 35 different universities in Korea. Reliable and valid questionnaires (EBP knowledge scale, EBP self-efficacy, EBP attitude, Regularity in reading research and searching evidence) were used and the data were analyzed using SPSS for Windows 18.0 software. Results:The overall levels of knowledge (4.36 out of 7), and self-efficacy (174.77 out of 280) for EBP were moderate whereas the attitude was relatively higher level (12.62 out of 16). The attendance of EBP course (t = 3.298), taking nursing research course (t = 2.022), regularity in using journals (t = 3.218), regularity in using web-databases (t = 3.297) were significantly related to EBP knowledge (p < .05). And also, those factors were significantly related to EBP self-efficacy. Taking EBP course was significantly related to regularity in using web-database (&khgr;2 = 21.633, p < .001) and the regularity in using journal (&khgr;2 = 13.497, p = .001). Furthermore, statistically significant correlations were found between EBP knowledge and attitude (r = .163, p < .05). And also, the self-efficacy was significantly correlated with attitude for EBP (r = .202, p < .01). Conclusion:The study result indicates that blended learning program needs to be developed in order to facilitate the knowledge and the efficacy for EBP among undergraduate nursing students.