Evidence-based practice by physiotherapists in UAE: Investigating behavior, attitudes, awareness, knowledge and barriers

• Hamda AlKetbi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hamda AlKetbi, Tamer Shousha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Department, Rashid Hospital, DHA, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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• Fatma Hegazy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Physiotherapy, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Physical Therapy for Growth and Development Disorders in Children and Its Surgery, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-083X

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• Arwa Alnaqbi,

  Roles Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Physiotherapy Department, Ministry of Health and Prevention, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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• Tamer Shousha

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hamda AlKetbi, Tamer Shousha

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tshousha@sharjah.ac.ae

  Affiliations Department of Physiotherapy, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Department of Physical Therapy for Musculoskeletal Disorders and Its Surgery, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0712-4490

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