Instrument:

The Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS)—Greek version

Implementation
outcome:

Acceptability

Instrument summary:

15-item scale measuring attitudes towards evidence-based practice among medical doctors

Level of analysis:

Provider

Country of application:

Greece

Psychometric quality
(ConPsyCL):

5 / 22

Global reliability
score (COSMIN):

Fair

Global validity
score (COSMIN):

Poor

Responsiveness
score (COSMIN):

Not assessed

Reference:

Melas CD, Zampetakis LA, Dimopoulou A, Moustakis V.

Evaluating the properties of the Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS) in health care.

Psychol Assess. 2012;24(4):867–76

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

1 / 1 Kaiser criterion

1 / 1 Variance explained
/ Parallel analysis

0 / 1 Main loadings

0 / 4 EFA goodness of fit

2 / 4 CFA Goodness of fit

 

0 / -2 Penalty

Methodological quality:
(COSMIN)

Reliability

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Internal consistency

Fair

Reliability

Not assessed

Measurement error

Not assessed

Global reliability score

Fair

Validity

See how Validity is scored

Content validity

Not assessed

Structural validity

Fair

Hypotheses testing

Fair

Cross-cultural validity

Poor

Criterion validity

Not assessed

Global validity score

Poor

Responsiveness

See how Responsiveness is scored

Responsiveness

Not assessed