Table 3.
Perceived barriers among PTs who used Standard Outcome Measures (SOMs) (n = 111)
| Barriers | Agree | Agree somewhat | Disagree | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Percent | N | Percent | N | Percent | |
| “Confusing to patients”. | 35 | 31.3 | 55 | 49.1 | 21 | 18.9 |
| “Difficult for patients to complete independently”. | 42 | 37.8 | 58 | 52.3 | 11 | 9.9 |
| “Require too high a reading level for many patients”. | 39 | 35.1 | 59 | 53.2 | 13 | 11.7 |
| “English language in which many of my patients are not fluent”. | 59 | 53.2 | 35 | 31.5 | 17 | 15.3 |
| “Not sensitive to the cultural/ethnic concerns of many patients”. | 32 | 28.8 | 53 | 47.7 | 26 | 23.4 |
| “Make patients anxious”. | 8 | 7.2 | 52 | 46.8 | 51 | 45.9 |
| “Take too much time for patients to complete”. | 53 | 47.7 | 47 | 42.3 | 11 | 9.9 |
| “Take too much of clinicians’ time to analyze/calculate/score”. | 48 | 43.2 | 44 | 39.6 | 19 | 17.1 |
| “Provide information that is too subjective to be useful”. | 21 | 18.9 | 59 | 53.2 | 31 | 27.9 |
| “Require more effort than they are worth”. | 20 | 18.1 | 50 | 45.1 | 41 | 36.9 |
| “Do not contain information that helps to direct the plan of care”. | 13 | 11.7 | 41 | 36.9 | 57 | 51.4 |
| “Difficult to interpret (eg, do not know what norms are, how score relates to severity, or what a clinically important change might be)”. | 14 | 12.6 | 53 | 47.7 | 44 | 39.6 |
| “Do not contain the types of items or questions that are relevant for the type of patients I see”. | 15 | 13.5 | 57 | 51.4 | 39 | 35.1 |
| “Often do not get completed at discharge, so cannot give information about patients response to treatment”. | 25 | 22.5 | 56 | 50.5 | 30 | 27.1 |