Facilitators and Barriers to Minority Blood Donations

Barriers and facilitators to adolescent HIV testing.

This study examined the barriers and facilitators of HIV counseling, testing, and referral service (HIV CTR) acceptance among 278 youth aged 12-24 years old. Participants completed a questionnaire before health education sessions with trained counselors. Information was collected on individual characteristics, HIV testing acceptance, risk behaviors, reasons for having never been tested, and wha...

Impact Behavior Barriers and Facilitators to Learning

Barriers and Facilitators to Inclusive Education

To examine how inclusive our schools are after 25 years of educational reform, students with disabilities and their parents were asked to identify current barriers and provide suggestions for removing those barriers. Based on a series of focus group meetings, 15 students with mobility limitations (9-15 years) and 12 parents identified four categories of barriers at their schools: (a) the physic...

Facilitators and Barriers to Payment Reform

Fee-for-service, the predominant method of paying for health care in the United States, is an unsustainable payment approach that rewards volume, resulting in an increase in the number of health care services that are provided, regardless of the outcome of the service. Many believe this form of payment has contributed greatly to the ever-increasing costs of health care. Payment reform, which en...

Facilitators and Barriers to Adapting to the Disease: The Lived Experience of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Objective: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease in which the myelin lining the central nervous system is damaged. This study aimed to explore the experiences of facilitators and barriers adapting to MS. Material & Methods: This study was conducted using a qualitative phenomenological method. The participants were 14 (8 female and 6 male) referred to Rofideh Hospital in Tehran. Th...