Table 4.

Barriers to health information technology use for out-of-home caregiving.^a

Barriers	Current technology nonusers, % (n=207)	Current technology users, % (n=109)
Unfamiliarity with programs or websites that facilitate out-of-home caregiving	29.5	27.5
Privacy rules of care recipient’s health care provider	17.9	48.6
Insufficient time	7.3	12.8
Computer/Internet too complicated	8.2	5.5
Distrust in Internet for health-related information	6.8	3.7
Health or functional limitations	1.5	1.8
One or more of the above barriers	40.1	67.0

^aHealth information technology nonusers and users were asked to indicate all of the barriers that impede their use of technology or their more frequent use of technology, respectively, to help their care recipients with their health.