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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Sep 17.
Published before final editing as: Psychol Serv. 2025 Sep 15:10.1037/ser0000994. doi: 10.1037/ser0000994

Table 4.

Provider open-response feedback on barriers of CBT-N use (n = 27).

CFIR Domain n (%) Response Example
Innovation
   Complexity 5 (19%) “Some veterans struggle with the workload outside of sessions.”
   Relative Advantage 1 (4%) “I would say 25% of patients have a really good response to the treatment with significant reduction in nightmares.
The other 75% either a) don’t complete, b) are too activated by the therapy, or c) it doesn’t work.”
Inner Setting
   Compatibility 2 (7%) “It’s been a bit difficult implementing CBT-N in a residential settings given that it’s in a hospital setting, bed is not comfortable.”
   Relative Priority 2 (7%) “We don’t take as many cases for CBT-N and encouraged to do more trauma-focused treatments (i.e., CPT, PE, EMDR).”
   Resources 9 (33%) “The only thing stopping me from offering it more frequently is the demands on scheduling”; “It is hard for me to offer the treatment as much of as quickly as I would like because of caseload issues”;“I can do 60-minute appts but do not have support for a 90 minute. It is hard to get all the content in 60 minutes.”
   Executing Treatment 5 (19%) “Need a co-facilitator for the amount of work. It is hard to get a large group of referrals to do the group and then we have dropout or scheduling issues”
Individual
   Patient Opportunity or Need 10 (37%) “Veteran work schedules”; “Some patients are not proficient with technology, making it difficult to get sleep data efficiently.”
   Patient Motivation 6 (22%) “Patient avoidance of writing nightmares”; “While engaging in shared decision making, veterans pick CBT-N the least often.”

Note. CFIR = Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research.