barriers to adopting evidence-based practice: a cross-sectional study among undergraduate nursing students in vietnam

Background & aim: as the future nursing workforce, evidence-based practice is one of the key competencies for undergraduate nursing students in delivering safe and quality care. while plenty of studies investigate nurses' evidence-based practice, understanding this topic is limited among nursing students. thus, this study aimed to identify barriers and associated factors to adopting evidence-based practice among undergraduate nursing students in vietnam.methods & materials: a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted on 395 undergraduate nursing students who were conveniently selected at a public university in central vietnam from march to may 2022. a questionnaire was administered to collect information about general characteristics and barriers to implementing evidence-based practice regarding knowledge, practice, authority, setting, and research utilization. data were analyzed using spss 20.0 with descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance, and pearson's correlation coefficients.results: among 395 participants, most of them faced barriers regarding knowledge (91.9%), practice (96.2%), authority (89.1%), clinical setting (92.2%), and research utilization (96.2%). the most mentioned barriers were related to research utilization and clinical settings. barriers to adopting evidence-based practice were significantly associated with a level of seeking information about research/scientific evidence and a level of participating in research/implementing evidence-based practice (p<05). moreover, knowledge barriers were related to age, school year, and sources of data for searching (p<05).conclusion: undergraduate nursing students have faced many barriers when adopting scientific evidence into clinical practice. supporting students in addressing these barriers is necessary to enhance their evidence-based practice competency.