Determinants of Evidence Implementation by Nurses: #Evidencer Model for the Use of Evidence-Based Practice (#EvidencerMUSEBP)—A Structural Equation Model

Table 2

Comparison of the sociodemographic and professional variables with the dimensions and total EBP-COQ-Prof©.

	N	EBP attitude			EBP knowledge			EBP skills			EBP utilization			EBP total
		M	SD	value	M	SD	value	M	SD	value	M	SD	value	M	SD	value
Male	478	4.65	0.39	0.154	3.68	0.80	<0.001	3.99	0.56	<0.001	3.31	0.64	0.619	3.85	0.48	<0.001
Female	1892	4.68	0.37		3.46	0.81		3.86	0.64		3.29	0.63		3.76	0.48
Educational level
(1) Bachelor	945	4.64^2-3-4	0.39	0.004	3.77^2-3-4	0.78	<0.001	3.75^2-3-4	0.55	<0.001	3.22^2-4	0.60	<0.001	3.62^2-3-4	0.46	<0.001
(2) Master	1004	4.69^1	0.36		3.62^1-3-4	0.76		3.93^1-4	0.57		3.32^2-3-4	0.65		3.83^1-4	0.46
(3) SN	245	4.69^1	0.39		3.77^1-2-4	0.66		3.97^1-4	0.49		3.34^1	0.61		3.89^1-4	0.42
(4) PhD	176	4.73^1	0.38		4.30^1-2-3	0.55		4.25^1-2-3	0.48		3.45^1	0.65		4.15^1-2-3	0.40
Training on EBP
(1) None	350	4.58^2-3-4	0.47	<0.001	2.86^2-3-4	0.76	<0.001	3.63^2-3-4	0.59	<0.001	3.00^2-3-4	0.60	<0.001	3.43^2-3-4	0.45	<0.001
(2) <40 hours	582	4.66^1-4	0.37		3.21^1-3-4	0.73		3.75^1-3-4	0.53		3.19^1-3-4	0.60		3.63^1-3-4	0.45
(3) 40–150 hours	694	4.68^1-4	0.37		3.58^1-2-4	0.69		3.88^1-2-4	0.54		3.34^1-2-4	0.61		3.81^1-2-4	0.43
(4) >150 hours	744	4.73^2-3-4	0.32		3.96^1-2-3	0.70		4.12^1-2-3	0.52		3.47^1-2-3	0.62		4.02^2-3-4	0.42
Number of articles read in the last month
(1) 0	384	4.49^2-3	0.54	<0.001	2.81^2-3	0.78	<0.001	3.47^2-3	0.60	<0.001	2.94^2-3	0.61	<0.001	3.35^2-3	0.46	<0.001
(2) 1 to 3	1013	4.68^1-3	0.32		3.39^1-3	0.71		3.85^1-3	0.51		3.27^1-3	0.59		3.73^1-3	0.41
(3) >3	973	4.74^1-2	0.32		3.89^1-2	0.70		4.08^1-2	0.51		3.45^1-2	0.63		3.99^1-2	0.42
Use of digital tools to access scientific information
Yes	1966	4.65	0.38	0.215	3.53	0.79	0.003	3.90	0.56	0.005	3.30	0.62	0.041	3.79	0.46	0.002
No	404	4.68	0.37		3.39	0.91		3.81	0.59		3.23	0.68		3.71	0.53
Access to the Internet at work
Yes	2144	4.67	0.38	0.820	3.51	0.81	0.458	3.89	0.57	0.600	3.31	0.64	0.002	3.78	0.48	0.099
No	226	4.68	0.32		3.46	0.79		3.87	0.50		3.17	0.58		3.73	0.43
Nursing student mentor
Yes	1163	4.68	0.39	0.385	3.58	0.82	<0.001	3.97	0.56	<0.001	3.36	0.65	<0.001	3.83	0.49	<0.001
No	1207	4.67	0.37		3.43	0.80		3.81	0.56		3.23	0.61		3.72	0.46
Working in a BPSO® center
Yes	635	4.68	0.36	0.833	3.55	0.83	0.102	3.94	0.54	0.008	3.51	0.60	<0.001	3.86	0.45	<0.001
No	1735	4.67	0.38		3.49	0.77		3.87	0.57		3.21	0.63		3.74	0.48

SN: specialist nurse; M: mean; SD: standard deviation; ^1,2,3,4,5the category of nurses with which it has statistically significant differences () in the pairwise analysis of the Games–Howell post hoc comparison test.