ArticleCroatian medical journal2024
Evaluation of evidence-based medicine adoption among Nigerian surgeons: competence, knowledge, attitudes, practices, and barriers.
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- Limited Evidence to Fully Determine the Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice by Healthcare Providers in Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of evidence-based medicine · 2025Pooled it
- "…it is not the sickness itself that kills. It is the emotional trauma": a qualitative study of the lived experience and systemic barriers of women with breast cancer in Nigeria.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Article
- Assessment of knowledge, attitudes, practices, and barriers to evidence-based practice (EBP) among healthcare providers at Port Said: an exploratory sequential mixed method study.BMC medical education · 2025Article
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Abstract
aimTo determine the competence, knowledge, attitude, and barriers to evidence-based medicine (EBM) among surgeons in southwest Nigeria.
methodsBetween April 1 and June 30, 2019, a composite questionnaire consisting of the McAllister knowledge and attitude questionnaire, the Zwolsman barrier questionnaire, and 5 questions from the Berlin Questionnaire (BQ) on competence in EBM was administered to 185 surgeons and trainees in five hospitals in southwest Nigeria.
resultsThe study involved 169 respondents (57 surgeons and 112 trainees). A total of 122 (72.1%) participants reported to always/often use EBM in their practice and 47 (27.9%) to rarely/never use EBM. The majority of both groups still relied on traditional sources of information in their clinical practice. Even though self-identified EBM-users (28% points) scored significantly higher on the BQ than non-users (23.8% points), there was no difference in their performance on the McAllister and Zwolsman questionnaires. Paradoxically, those with prior training in EBM were not more likely to use EBM than those without training, and there were no significant differences in their BQ scores.
conclusionsSurgeons in Nigeria have a high level of awareness and use of EBM, as indicated by the 72% awareness rate found in our study, but their knowledge and confidence in its application are low. Our findings indicate that the quality of EBM training in the region needs to be reevaluated.
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