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. 2022 Feb 24;10:830893. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.830893

Table 5.

Barriers and facilitators to participation in COVID-19 response activities.

n %
Barriers to participation in COVID-19 response*(N = 1,011, no answer = 39)
There were no barriers to my participation 387 38.3
No financial support 248 24.5
No opportunity or path for involvement 211 20.9
Not part of my job 172 17.0
No time 149 14.7
Don't know how to get involved 143 14.1
Lack of organizational interest 94 9.3
Lack of personal interest 24 2.4
Other 123 12.2
Facilitators to participation in COVID-19 response*(N = 1,015, no answer= 35, did not participate in COVID-19 response = 295)
Personal interest 508 50.1
Organizational interest 391 38.5
I have not participated in COVID-19 response and/or research 295 29.1
Part of established duties at my current job 295 29.1
Part of a new project/special deployment for COVID-19 223 22.0
Availability of new COVID-19 funding 124 12.2
I learned of volunteer opportunity through OHN 42 4.1
I learned of job opportunity through OHN 21 2.1
Other 59 5.8

N, number of people that answered the question; n, number of responses.

*

Possible to select multiple options, including “other”, from a list. Sum of group percentages does not = 100%.