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intention to use research evidence, estimation of peers’ use of research evidence, estimation of respected colleagues’ use of research evidence, EBP implementation climate, and EBP implementation leadership. Dummy coding was used for all categorical independent variables. No problem with multicollinearity between the predictor variables was detected according to the variance inflation factor. Independent variables that showed a p-value ≤ 0.10 were included in a multiple logistic regression model. Possible two-way interaction terms were tested. Results are reported as odds ratios, with 95% confidence intervals and p-values. All results were considered significant at p < 0.05. Data were analyzed using SPSS (version 22). Results All instruments showed good internal consistency, with Cronbach’s Alpha values of 0.936 (EBP Implementation Scale), 0.912 (EBP Climate Scale) and 0.965 (EBP Leadership Scale). The questionnaire was completed by 294 participants. Ultimately, due to a statistical outlier, our analyses were based on 293 responses. The overall response rate was 32%, although the rate differed considerably among the professions (from 17% of the physicians to 51% of the occupational therapists) which led to some proportional overrepresentation of allied health professional groups compared to physicians in the final results. Analysis of response-bias showed no differences. The respondents were aged between 25 and 70 years; 89% were women and 11% were men. They worked in clinics of different size throughout Sweden, representing all 21 county councils in Sweden. Employees in large clinics made up nearly half of the study population. Three-quarters of the physicians were rheumatology specialists, but only 14% of the registered nurses had a formal specialization in rheumatology. Physicians were also most well educated after graduation. In the other professional groups, more than one in five professionals had no CPE after graduation; registered nurses had both the highest percentage of no CPE and the lowest percentage of research education. Around one in six respondents had been active in research-related activities during the past year (Table 1). Respondents’ perception of the value of research evidence for clinical practice was high (6 on a scale of 1-7), as was their intention to use research evidence in the future. Their personal assessment of their ability to use research in practice and their estimation of the use of research evidence by a respected colleague were somewhat lower. Only half of the respondents estimated that a respected colleague often or always used research, and 15% of the respondents believed that a respected colleague rarely used research. Less than a quarter of the respondents estimated that a high percentage (81-100%) of their peers used research in practice (Table 2). The average score on the EBP Implementation Climate Scale was 32.6 (standard deviation [SD], 12.4; range, 3-62). More than half of the respondents agreed to a great extent to the items “One of my workplace’s main goals is to use evidence-based practices effectively” (n = 190, 66%), “People in my workplace think that the implementation of evidence-based practices is important” (n = 210, 73%), and “Using evidence-based practices is a top priority in my workplace” (n = 183, 63%) (Figure 2). The average score on the Implementation Leadership Scale was 21.8 (SD, 11.4; range, 0-48). The items that most respondents agreed with to a great or very great extent included one item belonging to the subdomain concerning leadership EBP knowledge (my immediate supervisor “knows what he/she is talking about when it comes to EBP”; n = 110, 41%) and all three items belonging to EBP-
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