Sentence examples for ranked barriers from inspiring English sources

Of the 10 most highly ranked barriers, 8 are related to government performance.

Factors related to economic and physical inaccessibility and lack of infrastructure, drugs and supplies at health facilities were highly ranked barriers to utilisation of institutional delivery.

The highest ranked barriers were: staff being unaware and not asking about domestic abuse and disability (M 1.34 SD 0.553); impact of domestic abuse on women (M 1.36 SD 0.559); and women's fear of disclosure (M 1.41 SD 0.780).

Overall, factors related to economic and physical inaccessibility and lack of infrastructure, drugs and supplies at health facilities were the highly ranked barriers to utilisation of delivery care services.

The ranked barriers and facilitators in the ranking written activity were reversed scored (where rank 1 = 3 points, 2 = 2, and 3 = 1 point) and tallied so that higher scores indicated higher ranked importance of a barrier or facilitator.

The next most highly ranked barriers were difficulty taking time off work, being too unwell to ask for help, having had previous bad experiences, wanting to solve the problem on one's own, and not wanting a mental health problem on one's medical records with only the latter being a designated stigma-related barrier.

Time constraints were the highest ranked barrier amongst all trainees.

The most important barrier for each participant received a value of 1, the second most important barrier a value of 2 and so forth until the least important barrier received a value of 7. A mean ranking score was calculated for every barrier (denominator used was the number of participants that ranked that specific barrier); the top ranked barrier would therefore have the lowest mean score.

This finding concurs with two studies that surveyed comparable target populations: Australian emergency medicine registrars and consultants reported 'limited time availability' (44.5%) as their highest ranked barrier, and American registrars and consultants also flagged 'too many other demands on time' as their greatest barrier amongst 71.3% of the trainees who failed to credential [10, 12].

Regardless of diabetes status, the lack of "someone to exercise with" was the most highly ranked barrier, suggesting that helping individuals identify and use supportive exercise settings and supportive personal contacts is an important avenue to increase physical activity.

Four participatory activities were conducted with members of a post-test support group (Table 3) using visual tools to identify and rank barriers to clinic attendance.