Traditionally delivered in-person, barriers to receiving CBT may include social stigma, direct and incidental costs (e.g., time out of school), lack of trained deliverers, and inconvenient service times and locations [ 3– 6].
Self-testing can be liberating from the drudgery of operating only with the pattern of (often poor or inconvenient) service provided by the healthcare system, as some bloggers have indicated, but, at the same time, there are frequently concerns about the effectiveness, reliability and use of self-testing equipment.
Focus group participants identified many barriers to STD care consistent with other studies, including lack of knowledge of STDs, cost, inconvenient services, shame, and urethral swabs as method of specimen collection.
The heavy rationalisation process in British Railways in the 1960s, often referred to as the Beeching Axe, resulted in a re-assessment of those lines, at a time when efficient bus services were abstracting passengers from often infrequent and inconvenient train services.
Recording companies blamed the availability of free songs on the Internet, and late in the year, they introduced their own paid, limited, inconvenient subscription services, Musicnet and Pressplay, as legal alternatives to free-for-all song-sharing.
Marginalized groups such as migrants or ethnic minority groups often have inadequate access to health care services with poor provision of health services, inconvenient location of health services and cultural differences being the barriers to access to health care [ 6- 8].
Barriers to the use of psychological support services reported by patients include a lack of patient awareness of services, lack of provider referral/endorsement, inconvenient location of services, lack of willingness to talk to a stranger or therapist about personal issues, and difficulty scheduling appointments around treatment and other commitments [ 35, 36].
Inconvenient hours of service (r = -.18, p <.001) and transportation problems (r = -.11, p <.05) were both associated with diminished problem resolution, as were the experience of delays that made the problem worse (r = -.18, p <.001).
Moreover, it is inconvenient to provide services in locations without a direct energy source such as water meters, sensors used in intelligent containers, on vehicles for on-board security, on the body of animals for wildlife management, massive number of metering devices deployed, e.g., in a tower.
The reasons as to why some didn't select hospitals in Beijing include high medical expenses (52.7% of 72 subjects), inconvenient and inaccessible services (28.6%), and being discriminated against (4.8%).
It has been cutting costs and trying to repair relations with consumers after receiving complaints of lax customer service and inconvenient airline ticket routings.
