Open AccessBarriers to and factors facilitating breast cancer screening among Iranian women: a qualitative study
Author(s) -
Minoor Lamyian,
Alireza Hydarnia,
Fazlollah Ahmadi,
Soghrat Faghihzadeh,
Aguilar-Vafaie Me
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
eastern mediterranean health journal/eastern mediterranean health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1687-1634
pISSN - 1020-3397
DOI - 10.26719/2007.13.5.1160
Subject(s) - fatalism , misinformation , grounded theory , feeling , qualitative research , breast cancer , medicine , coping (psychology) , health care , social support , breast cancer screening , psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , cancer , mammography , social science , philosophy , theology , sociology , political science , law , economics , economic growth
This study used qualitative methodology to understand Iranian women's views about barriers to and factors facilitating screening for early detection of breast cancer. Using grounded theory with in-depth interviews of 31 participants, themes emerged from the data in 2 main categories (internal and external) with 3 sub-categories: women's attitudes, feelings and beliefs; women's social network experiences; and accessibility. Facilitating factors for screening were self-care, fear, proactive coping, state of mind and advocacy. Barriers were negligence, cancer-related fear, low self-efficacy, fatalism, misinformation, ineffective health communication and competing priorities.