Academic and Clinical Nurses’ Perceptions and Experiences on Academic-Practice Partnership in Evidence-Based Practice: An Interpretive Description

Table 1

Basic characteristics of participants (n = 22).

	Mean ± SD, range
Age (years)	31.14 ± 6.39, (22–48)
Evidence-based Nursing Practice Competence Score^a	74.36 ± 6.46, (65–92)
	n (%)
Gender
Female	28 (81.82%)
Male	4 (18.18%)
Educational degree
Baccalaureate	5 (22.73%)
Master	10 (45.45%)
Ph.D.	7 (31.82%)
Position
Academic staff	6 (27.27%)
Master’s student (professional degree)	2 (9.09%)
Master’s student (academic degree)	3 (13.64%)
Doctoral candidate	4 (18.18%)
Head nurse	3 (13.64%)
Bedside nurse	4 (18.18%)
Experience in EBP projects
Yes	19 (86.36%)
No	3 (13.64%)
Experience in academic-practice partnership in evidence-based practice
Yes	14 (63.64%)
No	8 (36.36%)

Note. ^aTotal score on the evidence-based nursing practice competence scale ranges from 0 to 92. This Chinese measurement was developed and validated by Wang et al. in 2017 [21]. More details of this scale can be found in the note of Supplementary Material Table S1.