Table 3.

Responses to “Barriers that hinder me from performing oral care for the patients”, compared to a similar previous study^#.

Barriers	Singapore Pediatric Oncology Nurses (Our study) (%)	Singapore Critical Care Nurses (Chan & Ng 2012) [9] (%)
Staff factors
Lack of time	31.7	–
Inadequate staffing	25.4	11.3
Lack of oral toilet requisites	19	8.4
Lack of knowledge	17.5	3.8
Not sure what to look out for	17.5	–
I have other more important tasks	11.1	–
Doctors are the ones responsible	9.5	–
It is an unpleasant task	9.5	0.4
Patient factors
Uncooperative patient	90.5	88.7
Unwell patient	41.3	28.0
Patient has a sore mouth	38.1	–
Intubated patients	11.1	11.3
Others	–	8.8
Parents are the ones responsible	42.9	–

^#Multiple responses possible.