Effectiveness of the tailored Evidence Based Practice (EBP) training program for Filipino PhysioTherapists

ISRCTN	ISRCTN74485061
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN74485061
Secondary identifying numbers	N/A

Submission date: 27/01/2011
Registration date: 09/02/2011
Last edited: 21/07/2014

Recruitment status: No longer recruiting
Overall study status: Completed
Condition category: Other

Prospectively registered

Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

Plain English Summary

Not provided at time of registration

Contact information

Miss Janine Margarita Dizon
Scientific

International Centre for Allied Health Evidence
University of South Australia
School of Health Sciences
City East Campus
North Terrace
Adelaide
5000
Australia

Email	Janine.Dizon@unisa.edu.au

Study information

Study design	Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	Other
Study type	Treatment
Participant information sheet	Not available in web format, please use the contact details below to request a patient information sheet
Scientific title	Effectiveness of the tailored evidence based practice (EBP) training program for Filipino physiotherapists: a randomised controlled trial
Study acronym	EBP for FilPTs
Study hypothesis	Study hypotheses: 1. The evidence based practice training program (EBP for FilPTs) will result in significant improvement in knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviour of Filipino physiotherapists 2. The EBP training program (EBP for FilPTs) will be a tested model of continuing education and uptake of evidence which is contextually relevant to Filipino physiotherapists, and which could be adapted readily for physiotherapists from other developing countries, and allied health professionals who are not first contact practitioners in any health care system
Ethics approval(s)	University of South Australia Human Research Ethics Committee, 25/11/2010, ref: 0000021872
Condition	Evidence-based practice in physiotherapists
Intervention	The intervention is the tailored Evidence Based Practice (EBP) training program named as the EBP for FilPTs. The intervention is to be tested against a waitlist control group. The intervention is to be conducted as a one-day training, in a seminar workshop format and participants will be monitored on a 3-month period.
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure	1. Knowledge and skills to EBP (measured by the Adapted Fresno Test) - measured at baseline, post one day intervention and after the 3 month monitoring 2. Attitudes to EBP (Questions on attitudes by Stevenson et al 2004) - measured at baseline, post one day intervention and after the 3 month monitoring 3. Behaviour (Activity diaries) - 3 month monitoring
Secondary outcome measures	No secondary outcome measures
Overall study start date	01/02/2011
Overall study end date	31/10/2011

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Adult
Sex	Both
Target number of participants	54
Participant inclusion criteria	1. Licensed to practice physiotherapy and trained in the Philippines 2. Have not ever participated in any formal EBP training 3. Aged 20 years and over, either sex
Participant exclusion criteria	Does not meet inclusion criteria
Recruitment start date	01/02/2011
Recruitment end date	31/10/2011

Locations

Countries of recruitment

Australia
Philippines

Study participating centre

International Centre for Allied Health Evidence

Adelaide
5000
Australia

Sponsor information

International Centre for Allied Health Evidence - University of South Australia (Australia)
University/education

c/o Janine Margarita R. Dizon
School of Health Sciences
City East Campus
North Terrace
Adelaide
5000
Australia

Email	Janine.Dizon@unisa.edu.au
Website	http://www.unisa.edu.au/cahe
"ROR"	https://ror.org/01p93h210

Funders

Funder type

Government

Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (Philippines) - Department of Science and Technology

No information available

Results and Publications

Intention to publish date
Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
Publication and dissemination plan	Not provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan

Study outputs

Output type	Details	Date created	Date added	Peer reviewed?	Patient-facing?
Protocol article	protocol	13/04/2011		Yes	No
Results article	results	17/07/2014		Yes	No