title: Awareness, Attitude and Barriers Towards Evidence Based Dental Practice Amongst Practicing Dentists of Bhopal City.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Evidence based dental practice is said to be the recent best approach to provide treatments or interventions, methodically proven to be safe and sound, efficient and cost effective. So, for providing quality dental care, clinical expertise, research evidence and patient's preferences all should be given equal importance.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To assess the awareness, attitude & barriers of evidence-based dental practice (EBDP) amongst dentists of Bhopal city.
  
  
  METHODS
  The target population of this cross-sectional study involves dentists of Bhopal city. Two hundred fifty private dentists of Bhopal were selected using convenience sampling technique. Data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire containing 15 questions for assessing Knowledge, attitude, practice & barriers in Evidence based practice. Chi-square, t-test & one-way ANOVA were applied for data analysis and p<0.05 was considered statistically significant.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The study revealed that dental practitioners had low knowledge about evidence based dental practices but they showed positive attitude towards adopting it in their future practice. There exist certain barriers in practice of evidence based dentistry.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Including evidence based dental practice teaching in dental curriculum may prove to be a significant step in effective and efficient dental care delivery to the patients. Barriers in evidence based practice needs to be identified & eliminated.
authors.affiliation: Post Graduate Student, Department of Public Health Dentistry, People's College of Dental Sciences and Research Centre , Bhopal, India .
authors.forename: Manoj
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: Professor & HOD, Department of Public Health Dentistry, People's College of Dental Sciences and Research Centre , Bhopal, India .
authors.forename: Ajay
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhambal
authors.affiliation: Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Hitkarini Dental College and Hospital , Jabalpur, India .
authors.forename: Sudhanshu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Saxena
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Peoples Dental Academy , Bhopal, India .
authors.forename: Vijayta
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sharva
authors.affiliation: Post Graduate Student, Department of Public Health Dentistry, People's College of Dental Sciences and Research Centre , Bhopal, India .
authors.forename: Vaibhav
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bansal
authors.affiliation: Post Graduate Student, Department of Public Health Dentistry, People's College of Dental Sciences and Research Centre , Bhopal, India .
authors.forename: Bhanupriya
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Thakur
keywords: Decision making; Informational resources; Knowledge