The main barriers to initiating discussions about FP were lack of time, lack of knowledge, perceived poor success rates of FP options, poor patient prognosis and, to a lesser extent, if the patient already had children, was single, or could not afford FP treatment.
The barriers identified under this theme were categorized as: i) lack of knowledge, ii) infrastructure, drugs, supplies staff shortage and perceived poor quality of care, iii) bad staff attitude, iv) the role of TBAs and v) lack of community involvement.
At the same time, the perceived poor effectiveness of traditional therapies in curing cancer describes the importance of patients' knowledge about effective ways to treat cancer.
Life satisfaction is the strongest predictor of perceived poor health.
In the context of this study, the decisions of parents to use or not use child safety restraint are likely influenced by their perceived risk of not using CSS (e.g., poor knowledge), perceived benefits of using CSS (e.g., protecting child from an injury), and perceived barriers of using CSS (e.g., high prices) [ 8].
A review of the existing evidence base and exploratory research conducted with the target group identified three personal factors responsible for discouraging patients to come forwards for help and advice: poor knowledge, low perceived risk and fear of negative health outcomes, such as being diagnosed with the disease and concerns over effectiveness of treatment.
All three sets of these researchers concluded that African Americans typically have poor knowledge about CKD, do not perceive it as an important health issue or concern, and are not getting routine screenings for the condition.
The perceived causes of breast cancer reported by participants also showed poor knowledge of breast cancer's risk factors.
However, poor knowledge about costs of health care services is perceived as a major obstacle towards evidence-based, effective and efficient health care reforms.
Several previously hypothesized barriers were not perceived by our participants as obstacles to accessing EMS services, including poor knowledge of ambulance companies and appropriate indications to access ambulances.
