title: Contextualising migrants' health behaviour - a qualitative study of transnational ties and their implications for participation in mammography screening.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Lower participation rates in mammography screening are common among migrant women compared to native-born women. Explanations of these lower rates have mainly been based on behavioural theories investigating how lack of knowledge, access to services and culture influence the screening behaviour. The aim of the present study was to contextualise screening behaviour by exploring migrants' transnational ties and their influence on participation in mammography screening in Denmark.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study is based on the analysis of qualitative interviews with 29 women residing in greater Copenhagen, Denmark and born in Somalia, Turkey, India, Iran, Pakistan and Arab-speaking countries.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We found that while women had knowledge about breast cancer and mammography screening, it was not prioritised. All women were embedded in transnational ties, which they struggled to retain through emotional and financial obligations, and these current struggles in their everyday life seemed to leave little room for concerns about breast cancer and therefore seemed to contribute to their lower participation in screening.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The study emphasises the need to take into account the multi-layered and multi-sided factors in migrants' everyday life in order to further understand their health behaviour.
authors: Danish Research Centre for Migration, Ethnicity, and Health (MESU), Section for Health Services Research, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Like@sund.ku.dk
authors: Linnea
authors: L
authors: Lue Kessing
authors: Marie
authors: M
authors: Norredam
authors: Ann-Britt
authors: AB
authors: Kvernrod
authors: Anna
authors: A
authors: Mygind
authors: Maria
authors: M
authors: Kristiansen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D003718:Denmark; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008327:Mammography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000523:psychology*; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012998:Somalia / Q000208:ethnology; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
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