Replication data for: Occupational therapy students' evidence-based practice skills as reported in a mobile app: A cross-sectional study

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is regarded as part of the healthcare education curriculum. EBP teaching methods should be multifaceted, interactive, clinically integrated, and include assessment. A mobile app, the EBPsteps, was developed for students to learn and document their EBP skills. The aim of this study was to assess occupational therapy students' EBP skills as reported in the EBPsteps mobile app. Four cohorts of the 5th-semester occupational therapy (OT) students from different academic years (2018-2021) at HVL were invited to use the EBPsteps mobile app. Reports from the app, called Critically Appraised Topics (CATs), were collected from the EBPsteps app and exported from students' user accounts in the EBPsteps to Microsoft Excel®. We developed a scoring plan for each EBP step in the CATs, found in Appendix 1 in the article. This dataset includes 240 CATs written in Norwegian and delivered from the 119 OT students who chose to participate in the study.