The Influential Factors in Profiting the Research Evidences and Results in Clinical Practice by Rehabilitation Practitioners

Objective: This study intends to determine the factors attributed to the use of research evidences results in practice, by rehabilitation’s practitioners in educational hospitals of Tehran. Materials & Methods: In this study, the research community included all the 485 rehabilitation practitioners working in educational hospitals of Tehran. The samples were consisted of 165 persons which have been selected through cluster random sampling. For data collection, Funk questionnaires were used to determine the barriers and facilitators of evidence based rehabilitation. For data analyzes, descriptive statistics, independent T-test and one-way ANOVA were used. Results: %70.5 of participants was female with mean age of 38 and average twelve years of employment. Most of them (%38) were physiotherapists and undergraduates. According to the findings, current inadequate facilities for implementation of evidences and lack of enough authority to change patient rehabilitation procedures, were known as the two main barriers.At the other side,promoting personal motivations and interests, besides supplying proper necessary facilities, such as computer and easy internet access were the most effective facilitators for evidence-based rehabilitation practice. Conclusion: In this study, insufficient facilities for implementation of evidences and increasing interest and individual motivation for implementation of research were reported as the main barrier and facilitator of evidence based rehabilitation practice, respectively