Physicians’ Attitudes to Clinical Pain Management and Education: Survey from a Middle Eastern Country

Table 4

Barriers to adequate pain management based on physicians’ years in practice.

	Total number of physicians	Years in practice			value
		Early career; (≤5 years)	Mid-career; (6–10 years)	Advanced career; (≥11 years)
Pain is usually unresponsive to conventional analgesics	21 (30.43%)	13 (34.21%)	1 (12.50%)	7 (30.43%)	0.564
Terminal illness	17 (24.64%)	12 (31.58%)	0 (0.00%)	5 (21.74%)	0.122
Poor knowledge of pain management	29 (42.03%)	10 (26.32%)	8 (100.0%)	11 (47.83%)	<0.001
Fear of adverse effects of analgesics particularly respiratory depression and addiction to opioids	31 (44.93%)	17 (44.74%)	2 (25.00%)	12 (52.17%)	0.485
More than one answer	29 (42.03%)