Barriers to and discourses about breast cancer prevention among immigrant women in Spain: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify knowledge, barriers and discourses about breast cancer screening in Spain among female immigrants from low-income countries and native Spanish women from a low socioeconomic class.

Design

Qualitative interview study with thematic analysis interpreted using cultural mediators.

Setting

Mallorca, Spain.

Participants

Thirty-six in-depth interviews, using cultural mediators, of immigrant women living in Mallorca who were 50-69 years old and were from Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, China or were native to Spain and from a low socioeconomic class.

Results

We analysed the interviews to assess breast cancer perceptions and beliefs, discourses about breast cancer prevention and barriers to accessing breast cancer

SUBMITTER: March S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6252688 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature