Discrepancy Between Perception and Objective Knowledge of Evidence-Based Practice Among Latin American Psychologists: A Cross-Sectional E-Survey Study
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 1,506
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Knowledge of evidence-based practice
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This was a non-experimental, descriptive, prospective and cross-sectional study, for which the CHERRIES checklist was used to report the study in order to improve the quality of the report of such designs. The open-ended survey was voluntary, consisted of 18 items and four sections, the items were not randomized and the survey was estimated to last approximately five minutes.
Detailed Description
Sampling:
A non-experimental sampling is carried out by voluntary subjects, since the subjects will come to the study by a call for applications.
Sample size
The formula of infinite population of qualitative variables will be used, because we will work with ordinal variables and because the total number of observation units that integrate it is unknown or when its population is greater than 100,000 and the formula is the following:
The sample size for 100,000 people should be 384 people, so that 95% of the time the data you want to measure is in the interval ±5% with respect to the data observed in the evaluation.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Observational Model
- Cohort
- Time Perspective
- Prospective
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Be an active psychology student at any university in Latin America.
- •To have completed at least one semester of the psychology degree program
- •Be between 18 and 65 years of age
- •Be able to read and write
- •Be a native Spanish speaker
- •Agree to participate voluntarily in the study.
- •Sign the informed consent form
Exclusion Criteria
- •Not currently residing in any Latin American country.
- •Those persons who have not studied psychology and are performing related activities.
- •Repeated IP (Internet Protocol)
- •Marginal frequencies in the sociodemographic data.
- •Participants who do not answer the complete scales.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Knowledge of evidence-based practice
Time Frame: 1 month
To explore knowledge in evidence-based practice, the studies conducted by the American Psychological Association (2005) and the studies conducted by Gaxiola-Pérez et al. (2019) were used as a basis, so that the components, phases that compose it, tools for critical reading and levels of evidence were questioned, in order to create a questionnaire of four items for the evaluation of knowledge, where the maximum score was four and the minimum value was zero.
Perception of Evidence-based Practice
Time Frame: 1 month
The perception was assessed using a visual analog scale, according to the methodological recommendations for instruments that assess online perception and considered: a) Degree of familiarity, b) Importance attached to it, and c) Frequency with which it is applied.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Alejandro Hernández Posadas
Professor of the Faculty of Psychology
University of Americas