Barriers to Implementation of Evidence Based Practice in Zahedan Teaching Hospitals, Iran, 2014

Table 3

Associations between background variables and implementation of evidence based practice by organizational and individual aspects using Chi-square test.

	Organizational aspects			Individual aspects
	Agree	Disagree	value	Agree	Disagree	value
Age group (years)
<25	105 (85.4)	18 (14.6)	0.013^*	91 (74.0)	32 (26.0)	0.334
>26	102 (72.9)	38 (27.1)		96 (68.6)	44 (31.4)
Gender
Male	66 (84.6)	12 (15.4)	0.129	56 (71.8)	22 (28.2)	0.872
Female	141 (76.2)	44 (23.8)		131 (70.8)	54 (29.2)
Education
Bachelor’s degree	199 (79.9)	50 (20.1)	0.043^*	181 (72.7)	68 (27.3)	0.017^*
Master’s degree	8 (57.1)	6 (42.9)		6 (42.9)	8 (57.1)
Job experience (years)
<5	135 (84.9)	24 (15.1)	0.001^*	120 (75.5)	39 (24.5)	0.138
6–10	43 (69.4)	19 (30.6)		37 (59.7)	25 (40.3)
11–15	11 (47.8)	12 (52.8)		16 (69.6)	7 (30.4)
+16	18 (94.7)	1 (5.3)		14 (71.1)	5 (28.9)
Employment status
Contractual	155 (83.8)	30 (16.2)	0.008^*	134 (72.4)	51 (27.6)	0.122
Permanent	19 (65.5)	10 (34.5)		16 (55.2)	13 (44.8)
Official	33 (67.4)	16 (32.6)		37 (75.5)	12 (24.5)

Figures are number (%); value <0.05.