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Impact of Good Practice Guidelines on Evidence-based Practice and Nurses' Work Environment

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Nurse Physician Relations
Nurses' Work Environment
Committed Centers With Excellence in Care (CCEC®) Program
Nurses' Evidence-based-practice Attitudes
Practice Nurse's Scope
Professional Stress
Interventions
Other: Good Practice Guidelines implementation
Registration Number
NCT04199065
Lead Sponsor
Parc de Salut Mar
Brief Summary

Evidence-based practice (EBP) has improved patient health outcomes. The work environment of nurses is a key element to improving the quality of care and to facilitate EBP, while also improving health outcomes.

The CCEC® / BPSO® program consists of the implementation of Good Practice Guides in health organizations in the Spanish territory, and is carried out through a training and participatory methodology, actively involving nurses in the process.

The present study tries to know if in the health organizations where the CCEC® / BPSO® program has been implemented, the perception of the nurses' working environment has improved, as well as their attitude towards evidence-based practice, with respect to organizations where this program has not been implemented.

Detailed Description

Quasi-experimental pre-post multicentre study with a non-equivalent control group, within the framework of the third cohort of the RNAO Good Practice Guidelines Implementation Program in Centers Committed to Care Excellence (CCEC® / BPSO®).

PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS:

Intervention group(IG): (institutions included in the third cohort of CCEC®):

Estructura de Gestión Integrada de Lugo, Cervo y Monforte de Lemos (Galicia), Hospital General Universitario Santa Lucía (Murcia), Xerencia de Xestión Integrada de A Coruña (Galicia), Hospital Guadarrama (Madrid), Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol (Cataluña), Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga (Andalucía), Organización Sanitaria Integrada OSI Araba (Araba).

Control group(CG): Hospital Son Espases (Mallorca), Hospital Son Llàtzer (Mallorca), Hospital de Granollers (Barcelona), Hospital de Puigcerdà (Girona), Hospital d'Igualada (Barcelona), Hospital General Universitario de Alicante (Alicante), Hospital Comarcal de Vinaròs de Castellón de la Plana (Castellón), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (Barcelona), Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada (Madrid), Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Barcelona).

To collect data, two validated questionnaires will be passed to all nurses in 7 health institutions where the RNAO Good Practice Guidelines Implementation Program begins (experimental group) and in 10 where it is not implemented (control group), both groups distributed throughout the Spanish territory. Basal data will be recorded before the beginning of the program and post intervention data will be recorded after one year.

Then the results will be compared to determine whether there are differences between nurses who work in the group of hospitals that have started the program with respect to those who work in other centers. The total duration of the project will be three years.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
1200
Inclusion Criteria

Nurses Work in the institutions participating in the study Acceptance to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria

Not be active

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Good Practice Guidelines groupGood Practice Guidelines implementationImplementation of Good Practice Guidelines
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
change in Beliefs- attitudes and behavior in front of EBPbaseline and 1 year

self-reported Beliefs- attitudes and behavior in front of EBP, through the 60 Likert type questions (from 1: minimum agreement to 10: maximum agreement) of the Health Sciences-Evidence Based Practice questionnaire (HS-EBP), that are classified in 5 dimensions: Beliefs and attitudes, (12 items); Results from scientific research (14 items); Development of professional practice (10 items); Evaluation of results (12 items) and Barriers / Facilitators (12 items).

change in Nurses' work environmentbaseline and 1 year

self reported perceived current work environment through the Practice Environment Scale-Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) questionaire, with 31 Likert type questions (1: "Strongly Disagree" -\> 4 "Strongly Agree"), including 5 sub-scales: Nurse participation in hospital affairs (8 questions); nursing foundations for quality of care (10 questions); nurse manager ability, leadership and support of nurses (5 questions); staffing and resource adequacy (4 questions); and collegial nurse-physician relationships (3 questions)

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
change in Job satisfaction: Likert type question ratingbaseline and 1 year

self-reported job satisfaction through a unique Likert type question rating 1: very unsatisfied; 5: very satisfied.

change in Institutional attitude perceived by nurses in relation to nursing researchbaseline and 1 year

self-reported 4 question rating: yes, not, unknown.

Trial Locations

Locations (17)

Consorci Sanitari Anoia-Hospital Igualada

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Igualada, Barcelona, Spain

Organización Sanitaria Integrada (OSI) Araba

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Vitoria Gasteiz, Araba, Spain

Hospital de Guadarrama

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Guadarrama, Madrid, Spain

Hospital General Universitario de Alicante

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Alicante, Spain

Hospital General Universitario Santa Lucía

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Murcia, Spain

Hospital Lucus Augusti

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Lugo, Spain

Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

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Barcelona, Spain

Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga

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Málaga, Spain

Hospital Clínic

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Barcelona, Spain

Hospital Comarcal de Vinaròs

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Vinaròs, Castelló, Spain

Hospital Son Llàtzer

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Palma De Mallorca, Spain

Hospital de Puigcerdà

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Puigcerdà, Girona, Spain

Hospital Universitri Germans Tries i Pujol

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Badalona, Barcelona, Spain

Xerencia de Xestión Integrada de A Coruña

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A Coruña, Spain

Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada

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Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain

Hospital Universitari Son Espases

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Palma De Mallorca, Spain

Hospital de Granollers

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Granollers, Barcelona, Spain

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