Online learning versus workshops: a rank minimized trial comparing the effect of two knowledge translation strategies designed to alter knowledge, readiness to change, and self-efficacy with respect to rehabilitation outcome measures.

Knowledge improved more with workshops than online delivery, while improvements in self-efficacy and readiness to change improved similarly regardless of delivery.Implications for RehabilitationThis study compared the relative efficacy of internet and workshop-based education, focusing specifically on the use of outcome measures in physical and occupational therapy practice.Improvements in the self-efficacy of rehabilitation professionals with respect to outcome measure use had lasting effects regardless of KT intervention type, as it was retained six months following the intervention.Results from this study show that online interventions may be as effective as face-to-face workshops for improving readiness to change and self-efficacy for using outcome measures in practice by rehabilitation professionals.This is valuable information given the recent global pandemic, the need for social distancing, and the potential for learning interventions to focus within the online environment in the future.