Evidence-Based Decision Making in Public Health: Capacity Building for Public Health Students at King Saud University in Riyadh

Table 4

Students self-evaluated knowledge and skills after completion of EBPH courses.

Skill or knowledge	Agree	Disagree	Uncertain
After completing the EBPH courses
I can formulate a searchable public health problem	30 (91%)	—	3 (9%)
Search the relevant databases for the highest available evidence	29 (88%)	1 (3%)	3 (9%)
Appraise the different types of studies and trials for external and internal validity	21 (64%)	4 (12%)	8 (24%)
Evaluate the impact of intervention by interpreting the relative risk and odds ratio	26 (79%)	1 (3%)	6 (18%)
Public health interventions require effective evaluations of health interventions carried out through research evidence	31 (94%)	—	2 (6%)
Randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews are tools to demonstrate the efficacy of public preventive and curative health interventions	30 (91%)	—	3 (9%)
Observational studies and surveillance data are credible source of evidence in EBPH	28 (85%)	2 (6%)	3 (9%)
Relative risk and odds ratio are measures used to quantify the effect of health interventions	31 (94%)	—	2 (6%)
Meta-analysis combines the results of different individual studies with the purpose of integrating the findings	31 (94%)	1 (3%)	1 (3%)

EBPH: evidence-based public health.