Replication of a Continuing Education Workshop in the Evidence-Based Practice Process

Abstract

Objective:

To replicate the results of Parrish and Rubin’s continuing education workshop in the evidence-based practice (EBP) process utilizing different workshop facilitators with participants in a different geographic location.

Methods:

We used a replicated, one-group pretest–posttest design with 3-month follow-up to evaluate the effectiveness of a 7-hr, continuing education workshop. Social workers’ (N = 45) knowledge of, attitudes toward, views of feasibility, intentions to use, and current use of the EBP process were assessed.

Results:

Three of four cohorts of participants showed significant improvement from pretest to posttest in the overall measure of the EBP process (p < .05). Participants’ scores significantly improved over time regarding their familiarity with, attitudes about, and intentions to use and current use of the EBP process (p < .001).

Conclusions:

Parrish and Rubin’s continuing education workshop in the EBP process appears to be an effective means to train social workers in the EBP process.

Keywords

evidence-based practice replication continuing education

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