Table 5 Barriers and facilitators for implementing EBP.
From: A web-survey assessed attitudes toward evidence-based practice among psychotherapists in Austria
Level | Barriers | Facilitators | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
External level | Organizational factors | Lack of time Lack of access | Organizational factors | Enough time Cost-free and easy access to studies Support from the team or organization |
External input | Conferences Training/education Talks, videos Books, journals Newsletters | |||
Exchange with others | Communication with colleagues Intervision Supervision | |||
Packaging of evidence | Lay language summaries Practical-oriented (e.g., using a case study format) | |||
Necessary for work | Evidence relevant for job as a psychotherapist (challenges in practice) Evidence relevant for additional job as lecturer, trainer, researcher, editor | |||
Individual Level | Negative attitude | No need/interest in study results Distrust toward studies Study results not generalizable to individual patients | Positive attitude | Research interest Desire to provide state-of-the art psychotherapy Perceiving research as important for work as a psychotherapist Positive experience using evidence |
Lack of knowledge/skills | Studies lack intelligibility Lack of competence/routine | Knowledge/skills | Routine/experience Knowing where to find and how to interpret evidence | |
