Attitudes of mental health providers towards adoption of evidence-based interventions: relationship to workplace, staff roles and social and psychological factors at work

Table 3 Hierarchical Multiple Regression with factors predicting EBPAS-36 total score and second-order components

	EBPAS-36 total scale^a			Professional concerns^b			Work conditions and requirements^c			Fit and preference^d
Step and predictor	∆ R²	Init. β	Fin. β	∆ R²	Init. β	Fin. β	∆ R²	Init. β	Fin. β	∆ R²	Init. β	Fin. β
Step 1:	.07**			.01*			.12**			.04**
Gender, female (ref)		-.13**	-.10*		n.s			-.12**	n.s		-.18**	-.16**
Age		-.21**	-.15**		n.s			-.32**	-.24**		-.08*	n.s
Years of experience		n.s			.12**	.09*		n.s			n.s
Step 2:	.01*			.02**			.01*			.01*
Education, specialist/MA (ref)
Cand.Psychol/Bachelor nurse		n.s			n.s			n.s			n.s
Unfinished cont. education		n.s			n.s.			n.s			n.s
Other		.11*	n.s		-.09*	n.s		.09*	n.s		n.s
Ph.D.		.n.s			n.s			n.s			-.10*	-.09*
Dual competence		.08*	n.s		-.12**	-.07*		n.s			n.s
Step 3:	.08**			.07**			.07**			.00
Workplace, Outpatient (ref)
Inpatient		n.s			n.s			n.s			n.s
Research/education clinical		n.s			n.s			-.10*	-.10*		n.s
Research/education non-clinical		.10*	.12**		-.10*	-.11*		n.s			n.s
Private practitioners		-.19**	-.12*		.16**	.10*		-.24**	-.18**		n.s
Governmental		.08*	n.s		-.08*	n.s		n.s			n.s
Municipal		n.s			n.s			n.s			n.s
Other		n.s			n.s			n.s			n.s
Systematically evidence-based		.13**	.09*		-.13**	-.09*		-.07*	n.s		n.s
Step 4:	.04**			.04**			.06**			.06**
Social climate, rule-based		n.s			.10*	.10*		n.s			n.s
Job demands		n.s			n.s			.19**	.19**		n.s
Control decisions		-.09*	-.09*		.09*	.10*		-.13**	-.13**		.12**	.14**
Social climate		n.s			n.s			.09*	.09*		n.s
Support colleagues		.13**	.13**		-.08*	-.08*		n.s			.13**	.13**
Support superiors		n.s			n.s			n.s			n.s
Empowering leadership		.15**	.15**		-.13*	-.12*		n.s			.09*	.11*
Step 5:	.00			.01*			.00			.01*
Working as clinicians		n.s			n.s			n.s			n.s
Position, psychologist (ref)		n.s			n.s			n.s			n.s
Managerial responsibilities		n.s			.12**	.12**		n.s			.11*	.11*

Higher standardized beta coefficients (β) indicate a stronger association; fin. β is adjusted for all previously entered variables. ^aTotal R² = .20 , adjusted R² = .19. ^bTotal R² = .15, adjusted R² = .13. ^cTotal R² = .25, adjusted R² = .25. ^dTotal R² = .12, adjusted R² = .11 * indicates significance at the p < .05 level, ** indicates significance at the p < .001 level

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