Decision-making, barriers, and facilitators regarding cervical cancer screening participation among Turkish and Moroccan women in the Netherlands: a focus group study

OBJECTIVES: Whether the lower Dutch cervical cancer (CC) screening participation of Turkish- and Moroccan-Dutch women is based on informed decision-making is unknown. Our aim was to explore how and why Turkish- and Moroccan-Dutch women decide to participate or not in the current Dutch CC screening programme as well as to learn their perceptions on self-sampling.DESIGN: Six focus group discussions were conducted between March and April 2019 with Turkish (n = 24) and Moroccan (n = 20) women in the Netherlands, aged 30-60 years. Questions were based on an extended version of the Health Belief Mod... Mehr ...