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.