The Barriers subscale was designed to
measure the potential financial, cognitive, social,
and practical barriers to medication taking. Eleven
items compose the Barriers subscale. Patients are
instructed to rate how important each potential
barrier of not taking pills is on a scale from 0 (not
importance barrier) to 10 (very important barrier).
The subscale scores range from 0 to 110; higher
scores indicate more barriers in taking prescribed
medication.