Evidence-based practice: beliefs, attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors of physical therapists.

Background And Purpose: Little research has been done regarding the attitudes and behaviors of physical therapists relative to the use of evidence in practice. The purposes of this study were to describe the beliefs, attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors of physical therapist members of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) as they relate to evidence-based practice (EBP) and to generate hypotheses about the relationship between these attributes and personal and practice characteristics of the respondents.

Methods: A survey of a random sample of physical therapist members of APTA resulted in a 48.