Table 3.

Endorsed Barriers to Using Patient-Rated Outcome Measures

Endorsed Barriers	No. (%)
By athletic trainers who used them (n = 110)
Patient completion time too long	46 (44)
Difficult for patients to complete	37 (36)
Confusing to patients	32 (31)
Too much time for clinician to analyze	30 (29)
Make patients anxious	24 (23)
Provide information too subjective to be useful	23 (22)
Difficult to interpret	23 (22)
No relevance to patients	18 (17)
Not worth the effort	16 (15)
Require too high of a reading level	15 (14)
Not sensitive to cultural/ethnic concerns	12 (12)
Language in which patients are not fluent	9 (9)
No direction to plan of care	8 (8)
Confusing to clinicians	7 (7)
By athletic trainers who did not use them (n = 311)
Patient completion time too long	144 (46)
Too much time for clinician to analyze	97 (31)
Lack of support	91 (29)
No relevance to patients	87 (28)
Not worth the effort	77 (25)
Questions not relevant to my patients	65 (21)
Difficult for patients to complete	53 (17)
No direction to plan of care	44 (14)
Confusing to patients	36 (12)
Difficult to interpret	28 (9)
Lack of training	25 (8)
Provide information too subjective to be useful	24 (8)
Cost too much	21 (7)
Do not get completed at discharge; not useful	18 (6)
Used for research purposes only	14 (5)
Will use in future	12 (4)
Make patients anxious	11 (4)
Require too high of a reading level	11 (4)
Language in which patients are not fluent	4 (1)
Confusing to clinicians	4 (1)
Not sensitive to cultural/ethnic concerns	2 (1)