PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

BACKGROUND: Health promotion interventions are not yet evidence-based to a desirable extent. Acomparatively unnoticed explanatory factor could be that in the education and training of practitioners in health promotion and prevention, evidence-based approaches are still not sufficiently taken into account.; OBJECTIVES: To what extent is the topic of evidence-based practice found in basic documents such as competency frameworks, module manuals of degree programs, and the education trainings offered by central training providers for practitioners in prevention and health promotion?; MATERIALS AND METHODS: Selective Internet research and document analysis of two subject-specific qualifications frameworks, 31degree programs, and three major training providers with respect to explicitly mentioned evidence topics.; RESULTS: Clear consideration of evidence in both qualification frameworks and in 17of the 31degree programs; no explicit mention in any qualification program of the three training providers in the last fiveyears.; CONCLUSIONS: Limitations of the methodological approach are that not the entire field was analyzed, that only explicit consideration of evidence topics was sought, and that planning papers are an uncertain indicator of actual practice in education, training, and continuing education. Nonetheless, the exploratory study points to aneed for action. It is suggested to approach universities and training providers with the aim of anchoring evidence topics more strongly in their offers, e.g., on the basis of the memorandum of the Bundeszentrale fur gesundheitliche Aufklarung (Federal Centre for Health Education; BZgA) "Evidence-based Prevention and Health Promotion."