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Table 3 Patient-related barriers

From: Identifying important barriers to recruitment of patients in randomised clinical studies using a questionnaire for study personnel

Factors in questionnaire

n

%

Fear of side effects

45

35

Language problems

39

30

Difficulties in understanding the importance of randomising

25

20

A fear of not receiving the best possible treatment

15

12

  1. n denotes the number of alternatives 4 and 5 on a Likert scale: 1 (completely disagree), 3 (partially agree) and 5 (completely agree)
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