Cancer screening coverage of south Asian women in Wakefield

Sutton, Graham; Storer, A.; Rowe, Kerry

doi:10.1136/jms.8.4.183

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“…Several population-based studies in the United Kingdom, a country whose health insurance coverage and cancer care system are comparable to those in Canada, revealed particularly low rates of breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening among women of sa ancestry 24,27,51 . Szczepura and colleagues 23 compared breast and colorectal cancer screening patterns over time for 5 sa ethnic groups and "non-Asians."…”

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A Population-Based Study of Ethnicity and Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis in Ontario

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A Population-Based Study of Ethnicity and Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis in Ontario

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“…Thus, our findings are similar to those in previous studies reporting that physician recommendation, acculturation and length of stay in the United States, and barriers to mammography were significantly associated with screening behavior. 16,25,37,[77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84] Self-efficacy is a key variable in the Health Belief Model (HBM). Interestingly, self-efficacy was significant in distinguishing between women who had never had a mammogram and those who had had at least one but was not a predictor for adherence to screening guidelines.…”

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Breast Cancer Screening Practices Among First-Generation Immigrant Muslim Women

Hasnain

Menon

Ferrans

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Journal of Women's Health

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Background: The purpose of this study was to identify beliefs about breast cancer, screening practices, and factors associated with mammography use among first-generation immigrant Muslim women in Chicago, IL. Methods: A convenience sample of 207 first-generation immigrant Muslim women (Middle Eastern 51%; South Asian 49%) completed a culturally adapted questionnaire developed from established instruments. The questionnaire was administered in Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, or English, based on participant preference. Internalconsistency reliability was demonstrated for all scales (alpha coefficients ranged from 0.64 to 0.91). Associations between enabling, predisposing, and need variables and the primary outcome of mammography use were explored by fitting logistic regression models. Results: Although 70% of the women reported having had a mammogram at least once, only 52% had had one within the past 2 years. Four factors were significant predictors of ever having had a mammogram: years in the United States, self-efficacy, perceived importance of mammography, and intent to be screened. Five factors were significant predictors of adherence (having had a mammogram in the past 2 years): years in the United States, having a primary care provider, perceived importance of mammography, barriers, and intent to be screened. Conclusions: This article sheds light on current screening practices and identifies theory-based constructs that facilitate and hinder Muslim women's participation in mammography screening. Our findings provide insights for reaching out particularly to new immigrants, developing patient education programs grounded in culturally appropriate approaches to address perceived barriers and building women's self-efficacy, as well as systemslevel considerations for ensuring access to primary care providers.

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“…In terms of ethnic background, there exists a wealth of research on how particular ethnic, cultural or religious groups can hold different understandings of health and illness, and have different experiences of health care. For example, work exists on the different beliefs about, and responses to, hypertensive therapy amongst the white population and those born in the West Indies (Morgan and Watkins, 1988), how culturally defi ned concepts of health and illness can infl uence heart health-associated behaviours (Higginbottom, 2000), the health and illness understandings of African-Caribbeans, and how these may be infl uenced by age and gender (Curtis and Lawson, 2000), the role of culture and religion in how diabetes is managed by Kashmiri men (Naeem, 2003), and how the religious beliefs and customs of Muslim women can impact upon participation in breast and cervical cancer screening (Sutton et al, 2001;Underwood et al, 1999). A look at the population statistics for the area where the research was based showed that the three groups making up the vast majority of the population were white British, south Asian and African-Caribbean.…”

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Discourse and the individual in cervical cancer screening

Armstrong

2007

Health (London)

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The official discourse on cervical screening, disseminated to women through the information material they receive when called to attend, is important for the ways in which it presents screening to women and encourages them to think about it. However, because this material is nationally produced it is designed to address a large number of women and, as a result, is necessarily general and uniform in nature. This article uses qualitative interview data to explore how individual women interpret, negotiate and make sense of this discourse in the context of their personal circumstances, experiences and characteristics; therefore producing alternative conceptualizations of, and discourses upon, cervical screening. Foucault's work on ‘technologies of the self’ is employed in order to suggest that these practices of individualization can be seen as the means through which a space is opened up between discourse and the individual. Within such a space the working out of individual subject positions is possible

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Cancer screening coverage of south Asian women in Wakefield

Abstract: (J Med Screen 2001;8:183-186)

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A Population-Based Study of Ethnicity and Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis in Ontario

A Population-Based Study of Ethnicity and Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis in Ontario

Breast Cancer Screening Practices Among First-Generation Immigrant Muslim Women

Discourse and the individual in cervical cancer screening

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