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We would like to present the course of, and findings and insights from, an initiative, including a nationwide study, entitled PRO-EBP, A platform for the promotion and dissemination of professional practice based on scientific evidence.
This was an attempt to promote and disseminate among Polish physiotherapists the ideas of, as well as educational materials aimed at facilitating the acknowledgment and understanding of the importance of, evidence-based physiotherapy practice.
The initiative was cofinanced by a grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland, within the program “Societal Responsibility of Science.” We conducted this endeavor with the support from Partners—the Polish Chamber of Physiotherapists and PEDro Partnership. Cochrane Poland and Czech National Institute of Quality and Clinical Excellence (KIREZ) also gave their inputs.
As a result, we prepared a Polish-language version of the PEDro – Physiotherapy Evidence Database, open-access Polish language glossary of terms such as catalogue of bias, summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines relevant to physiotherapy, and a book on EBP, as well as participated in the 2021 World Evidence Based Healthcare day and conducted a first international conference in Poland devoted solely to evidence-based practice. We launched a platform, which is available at https://pro-ebp.awf-bp.edu.pl/.
Within the program, we conducted a nationwide cross-sectional survey and focus group study on knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes toward evidence-based practice among physiotherapists in Poland (the protocol is published in PLoS One [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264531]). The cross-sectional survey addressed 70,052 physiotherapists registered in Poland, whereas the qualitative study utilized a typical focus group method. Here, we would like to present the findings of both studies and discuss and share our lived experiences related to this endeavor. We will try to find at least some answers to the questions of why evidence-based physiotherapy practice has still not been implemented in Poland, both in the profession and in undergraduate, postgraduate, and lifelong learning and education.
This was an attempt to promote and disseminate among Polish physiotherapists the ideas of, as well as educational materials aimed at facilitating the acknowledgment and understanding of the importance of, evidence-based physiotherapy practice.
The initiative was cofinanced by a grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland, within the program “Societal Responsibility of Science.” We conducted this endeavor with the support from Partners—the Polish Chamber of Physiotherapists and PEDro Partnership. Cochrane Poland and Czech National Institute of Quality and Clinical Excellence (KIREZ) also gave their inputs.
As a result, we prepared a Polish-language version of the PEDro – Physiotherapy Evidence Database, open-access Polish language glossary of terms such as catalogue of bias, summaries of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines relevant to physiotherapy, and a book on EBP, as well as participated in the 2021 World Evidence Based Healthcare day and conducted a first international conference in Poland devoted solely to evidence-based practice. We launched a platform, which is available at https://pro-ebp.awf-bp.edu.pl/.
Within the program, we conducted a nationwide cross-sectional survey and focus group study on knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes toward evidence-based practice among physiotherapists in Poland (the protocol is published in PLoS One [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264531]). The cross-sectional survey addressed 70,052 physiotherapists registered in Poland, whereas the qualitative study utilized a typical focus group method. Here, we would like to present the findings of both studies and discuss and share our lived experiences related to this endeavor. We will try to find at least some answers to the questions of why evidence-based physiotherapy practice has still not been implemented in Poland, both in the profession and in undergraduate, postgraduate, and lifelong learning and education.