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Table 3 Obstacles to DM-related information seeking

From: Information seeking behavior of patients with diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study in an outpatient clinic of a university-affiliated hospital in Athens, Greece

How important are for you the following problems in seeking information about diabetes?

1 = not at all, to 5 = most important

Do not know

Lack of time

  

Cost

  

Lack of competent infrastructures

  

Lack of health care providers

  

Lack of computer literacy

  

Great volume of unorganized information

  

Lack of understanding information due to scientific terms used

  

Lack of understanding information written in a foreign language

  

Psychological issues

  

Problems in the doctor-patient relationship

  

Other (please specify)