Mental Health Provider Attitudes Toward Adoption of Evidence-Based Practice: The Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS)

By Gregory A. Aarons. Mental Health Services Research, 2004

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Advancing a Conceptual Model of Evidence-Based Practice Implementation in Public Service Sectors (2010, background): “Individual provider attitudes toward adoption of EBPs vary with organizational characteristics as well as demographic predictors such as education level, professional status (Aarons 2004), and organizational culture and climate (Aarons and Sawitzky 2006).”
Outcomes for Implementation Research: Conceptual Distinctions, Measurement Challenges, and Research Agenda (2010, background): “Aarons’ Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS) captures the acceptability of evidence-based mental health treatments among mental health providers (Aarons 2004). Aarons and Palinkas (2007) used semi-structured interviews to assess case managers’ acceptance of evidencebased practices in a chi”
Views of Evidence-Based Practice Among Faculty in Master of Social Work Programs: A National Survey (2007, background): “In light of the above concerns, it is not surprising that the Aarons (2004) and Nelson et al. studies found much variability among mental health practitioners regarding the favorability of their opinions about EBP, with some expressing openness and enthusiasm regarding EBP and others expressing…”
Preparing Social Work Practitioners to Use Evidence-Based Practice (2009, background): “The most frequently cited barriers to EBP implementation include practitioner lack of knowledge and skills for using EBP and suspicion of researchers and of EBP (Aarons, 2004; Bellamy et al., 2006; Gotham, 2004; Ogborne, Wild, Braun, & Newton-Taylor, 1998).”
Measuring factors affecting implementation of health innovations: a systematic review of structural, organizational, provider, patient, and innovation level measures (2013, background): “These aspects could include attitudes towards evidencebased practice [24] or perceived behavioral control for implementing the innovation [25].”
The Influence of Transformational Leadership and Leader Attitudes on Subordinate Attitudes and Implementation Success (2019, methodology): “The EvidenceBased Practice Attitude Scale (Aarons, 2004) was used to measure both supervisor and staff attitudes toward the innovations being implemented in their organizations.”
Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence Based Treatments for Youth: Challenges and Recommendations (2012, background): “…beyond symptoms and diagnoses (e.g., Southam-Gerow, Chorpita, Miller, & Gleacher, 2008), therapist attitudes toward EBTs (e.g., Aarons, 2004), the culture and climate of a service organization (Glisson et al., 2008), and system-wide policies (e.g., Schoenwald & Hoagwood,…”
Training Therapists in Evidence-Based Practice: A Critical Review of Studies From a Systems-Contextual Perspective (2010, background): “One measure of therapist attitudes, the Evidence Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS; see Aarons, 2004), provides a beginning and may help to identify those therapist variables associated with adherence to and competence with EBP.”