Perceived Barriers to Applied PG Testing in Jordan:
Our study had the advent of gauging the perceived barriers to practice of PG testing in Jordan by clinicians and medical students (Table 3). The majority of respondents (90.1%) voted that the prohibitive high cost of PG testing is the most important barrier to practice PG in Jordan, followed by lack of clinical guidelines (88.4%), limited provider of knowledge and awareness (86.8%), and lack of insurance coverage (83.7%). Other less frequent perceived barriers by our sample included: lack of time and resources to educate patients (76.9%), result takes too long for treatment decisions (74.3%), patients’ anxiety regarding test results (55.9%), and that test results will not likely affect the treatment decision-making process (31.4%). Intriguingly, a minority of clinicians and medical students (39.6%) believed that their cultural and/or religious beliefs would affect the clinical practice of PG in North Jordan.