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NATIONWIDE ATTITUDE SURVEY ON “EBN” IN JAPAN
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RESEARCH DESIGN AND BASIC RESULTS
Hirofumi
TAKAGI and Etsuko NISHIYAMA
To elucidate the attitudes toward “EBN” (Evidence Based Nursing) in Japan, we conducted the nationwide survey, in which subjects were all of 3,155 teaching members (professors, associate professors, and so on) of nursing sciences in 89 colleges and universities that are joined to the Nihon Kangokei Daigaku Kyougikai (Japanese Nursing College/University Association).
The questionnaire was mailed to each subject and asked to send it back about the end of November, 2001. Two weeks later we sent thanks-letters (and also reminder letters) to the subjects. Finally we received 1,170 answers (198 males, 961 females, and 11 unknown) until the end of January, 2002. The response rate was 37.1%. We checked the differences between the population and samples about the distributions by gender and by special fields, and then there were not statistically significant differences.
The mean age of females was 41.7 (SD 10.4) , and that of males 51.1 (10.3) years old. Though 72.7% in males obtained the doctor’s degree, only 16.1% in females got it.
Concerning the knowledge of EBN, 71.7% were “known” or “well known”. The needs of EBN to the nursing researches accounted for 81.7% of respondents. (This study was supported by a grant-in-aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Technology of Japan).
(This paper was presented at the International
Nursing Conference 2002, 55, 2002 (4-6 October, Kuala Lumpur) ）