Table 5.

Barriers to raising environmental health issues or taking environmental health history: Frequency of endorsement

Barrier	N	%
Time pressure	84	62.2
Lack of knowledge	76	56.3
Importance in relation to other issues	74	54.8
Patient has little control of issues	55	40.7
Lack of capacity to treat of refer	52	38.5
Patient is not interested	50	37.0
Difficulty communicating risk to patients	22	16.3
Limited/contradictory research on impact of exposure	16	11.9
Concern about patient reaction	6	4.4