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Article of the Month

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The article to be appraised this month is:

 

Swanberg SM etal. (2016). Instructional methods used by health sciences librarians to teach evidence-based practice (EBP): a systematic review.. J Med Libr Assoc. 2016 Jul;104(3):197-208. doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.104.3.004.

 

Abstract

 

BACKGROUND:

Librarians often teach evidence-based practice (EBP) within health sciences curricula. It is not known what teaching methods are most effective.

METHODS:

A systematic review of the literature was conducted searching CINAHL, EMBASE, ERIC, LISTA, PubMed, Scopus, and others. Searches were completed through December 2014. No limits were applied. Hand searching of Medical Library Association annual meeting abstracts from 2009-2014 was also completed. Studies must be about EBP instruction by a librarian within undergraduate or graduate health sciences curricula and include skills assessment. Studies with no assessment, letters and comments, and veterinary education studies were excluded. Data extraction and critical appraisal were performed to determine the risk of bias of each study.

RESULTS:

Twenty-seven studies were included for analysis. Studies occurred in the United States (20), Canada (3), the United Kingdom (1), and Italy (1), with 22 in medicine and 5 in allied health. Teaching methods included lecture (20), small group or one-on-one instruction (16), computer lab practice (15), and online learning (6). Assessments were quizzes or tests, pretests and posttests, peer-review, search strategy evaluations, clinical scenario assignments, or a hybrid. Due to large variability across studies, meta-analysis was not conducted.

DISCUSSION:

Findings were weakly significant for positive change in search performance for most studies. Only one study compared teaching methods, and no one teaching method proved more effective. Future studies could conduct multisite interventions using randomized or quasi-randomized controlled trial study design and standardized assessment tools to measure outcomes.

 

 

This article is open access and available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27366120

Comments (1)

Suzanne Lewis said

at 10:18 am on Aug 29, 2016

I'm really looking forward to reading this article. More and more of us are teaching evidence based practice, in addition to our bread and butter of information literacy teaching. Any evaluation of teaching methods is always helpful.

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