Instrument:

Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS)

Implementation
outcome:

Acceptability

Instrument summary:

15-item questionnaire measuring attitudes toward adopting evidence-based practices

Level of analysis:

Provider

Country of application:

USA

Psychometric quality
(ConPsyCL):

5 / 22

Global reliability
score (COSMIN):

Not assessed

Global validity
score (COSMIN):

Excellent

Responsiveness
score (COSMIN):

Not assessed

Reference:

Wolf DAPS, Dulmus CN, Maguin E, Fava N.

Refining the Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale: an alternative confirmatory factor analysis.

Soc Work Res. 2014;38(1):47–58.

Psychometric quality
(ConPsyCL):

ConPsyCL score:

5 / 22

Reliability (Max 5pts)

Internal consistency (Max 3pts)

0 / 1Item internal consistency
/ Item total correlation

0 / 2Alpha

 

Test-retest or inter-rater (Max 2pts)

0 / 1 Item level

0 / 1 Factor level

 

Validity (Max 5pts)

0 / 1 Content validity

0 / 1 Face validity

0 / 1 Convergent validity

0 / 1 Discriminant validity

1 / 1 Discriminative validity

 

Factor Analysis (Max 12pts)

0 / 1 Adequacy measures

0 / 1 Kaiser criterion

0 / 1 Variance explained
/ Parallel analysis

0 / 1 Main loadings

0 / 4 EFA goodness of fit

4 / 4 CFA Goodness of fit

 

0 / -2 Penalty

Methodological quality:
(COSMIN)

Reliability

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Internal consistency

Not assessed

Reliability

Not assessed

Measurement error

Not assessed

Global reliability score

Not assessed

Validity

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Content validity

Not assessed

Structural validity

Excellent

Hypotheses testing

Not assessed

Cross-cultural validity

Not assessed

Criterion validity

Not assessed

Global validity score

Excellent

Responsiveness

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Responsiveness

Not assessed