Table 2 Associations between study participants’ frequency of practicing CE and self-perceived barriers to CPD
Perceived barriers Readers of different e-books | Frequency of practicing continuing education per week (min) N (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lack of free time |  < 15 | 15–30 | 31–60 |  > 60 | p trend |
 1st issue (n = 70) | 5 (15.2) | 13 (39.4) | 13 (39.4) | 2 (6.1) | 0.5593 |
 2nd issue (n = 123) | 13 (22.0) | 26 (44.1) | 13 (22.0) | 7 (11.9) | 0.7509 |
 3rd issue (n = 122) | 14 (21.9) | 29 (45.3) | 16 (25.0) | 5 (7.8) | 0.4068 |
 4th issue (n = 112) | 5 (10.2) | 25 (51.0) | 17 (34.7) | 2 (4.1) | 0.8809 |
Courses only offered in English | |||||
 1st issue | 7 (25.0) | 10 (35.7) | 9 (32.1) | 2 (7.1) | 0.4965 |
 2nd issue | 15 (31.9) | 20 (42.6) | 8 (17.0) | 4 (8.5) | 0.0383 |
 3rd issue | 13 (25.0) | 25 (48.1) | 9 (17.3) | 5 (9.6) | 0.1812 |
 4th issue | 7 (16.7) | 22 (52.4) | 11 (26.2) | 2 (4.8) | 0.2900 |
Course length is too long to read | |||||
 1st issue | 8 (17.4) | 17 (37.0) | 18 (39.1) | 3 (6.5) | 0.6397 |
 2nd issue | 14 (6.0) | 33 (49.3) | 18 (26.9) | 12 (17.9) | 0.1883 |
 3rd issue | 13 (15.9) | 35 (42.7) | 25 (30.5) | 9 (11.0) | 0.1174 |
 4th issue | 7 (10.3) | 37 (54.4) | 18 (26.5) | 6 (8.8) | 0.7202 |
Course content is too complicated to read | |||||
 1st issue | 6 (25.0) | 6 (25.0) | 10 (41.7) | 2 (8.3) | 0.8150 |
 2nd issue | 6 (15.8) | 18 (47.4) | 12 (31.6) | 2 (5.3) | 0.9708 |
 3rd issue | 7 (16.7) | 19 (45.2) | 12 (28.6) | 4 (9.5) | 0.7178 |
 4th issue | 4 (8.7) | 24 (52.2) | 14 (30.4) | 4 (8.7) | 0.4614 |
Courses not related to clinical fields | |||||
 1st issue | 5 (17.2) | 9 (31.0) | 14 (48.3) | 1 (3.4) | 0.5169 |
 2nd issue | 12 (20.3) | 23 (39.0) | 19 (32.2) | 5 (8.5) | 0.8390 |
 3rd issue | 8 (17.4) | 18 (39.1) | 12 (26.1) | 8 (17.4) | 0.1565 |
 4th issue | 6 (15.0) | 18 (45.0) | 12 (30.0) | 4 (10.0) | 0.7544 |