Banca de DEFESA: LIANA BONFIM MISSON PAULIN

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STUDENT : LIANA BONFIM MISSON PAULIN
DATE: 24/06/2024
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Plataforma Teams
TITLE:

Knowledge, Attitude, Access, and Confidence in Evidence-Based Practice: Validation of a Preliminary Version of KACE Questionnaire Translated to Brazilian Portuguese

KEY WORDS:

“Evidence Based Practice; Surveys and Questionnaires; Evidence-Based Dentistry; Validation Study"

PAGES: 100
BIG AREA: Ciências da Saúde
AREA: Odontologia
SUMMARY:

Introduction: Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is essential for informed decision-making in patient healthcare. To date, there is no validated tool in Brazilian Portuguese to assess the dimensions of EBP in a dental context. This study aimed to translate, adapt, and validate the KACE questionnaire (Knowledge, Attitude, Access, and Confidence Evaluation) for Brazilian Portuguese. Methodology: The KACE questionnaire was translated, backtranslated, and culturally adapted to Brazilian Portuguese. The pre-final version was tested with graduate students and faculty members, while the instrument's validation involved analyses of validity, reliability, and responsiveness, and included dental undergraduate, graduate students, dental faculty members from two Brazilian federal universities. Undergraduate students answered the questionnaire before and after training courses for the use of EBP, while graduate students and faculty members answered it only once. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS v26.0. Results: The Brazilian Portuguese version of the KACE instrument was well evaluated by participants. In total, 62 undergraduate, 23 graduate students and 12 faculty members answered the tool. Adequate reliability was observed, with Cronbach's alpha values ranging from 0.172 to 0.96. Findings were especially consistent for the Confidence scale (values for all groups above 0.86). The instrument showed discriminant validity capable of identifying different levels of experience for the Knowledge, Attitude, and Confidence scales (p-values <0.05 between undergraduate and postgraduate/professor results), but not for Access No differences for any scale was found for graduate students versus faculty members comparison. Scores on the Knowledge and Confidence scales showed significant improvements after undergraduate students EBP training (p<0.05), but not for the Attitude and Access to evidence scales. Conclusion: The translated and adapted version of the KACE tool (Knowledge, Attitude, Access, and Confidence Evaluation in EBP) for Brazilian Portuguese retained most of the psychometric properties of the original tool. An expansion of the sample size is necessary to improve the findings of discriminant validity and responsiveness. Also, it is still necessary to proceed the validation of the tool for graduate students.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - LUCIANA FARIA SANGLARD - UFES
Presidente - 1889805 - CRISTINE MIRON STEFANI
Externo ao Programa - 1247605 - FABIO CARNEIRO MARTINS - nullExterno ao Programa - 1768474 - TIAGO ARAUJO COELHO DE SOUZA - null