Table 2.

Barriers to Academic Activities, Such as Presentations at Academic Conferences and Publications in Academic Journals^* (n = 360).

	n (%)
Statistical analysis	271 (75.3)
Research funding	185 (51.4)
English editing	155 (43.1)
Database creation	127 (35.3)
Ethics committee	106 (29.4)
Drafting of study protocol	98 (27.2)
Literature review	83 (23.1)
Identification of clinical questions	83 (23.1)
Data collection	75 (20.8)
Defining of research questions	66 (18.3)
Creation of tables and figures	36 (10.0)
Others	32 (8.9)

^*Participants were asked to respond about all possible barriers for conducting academic activities.