Attitudes to mammography among women in ethnic minority groups in three areas of England

Abstract

THIS paper reports the findings of a Department of Health funded study to assess the attitudes to, and uptake of, breast-screening among Chinese women in Liverpool, Afro-Caribbean women in Camberwell, and Asian women in Huddersfield in 1991/92. Face- to-face interviews with 50 women in each of the three localities were carried out. A key finding was that most women had received their invitations for breast screening and over three-quarters of the women in each ethnic group who had received invi tations had taken them up. In general, there were positive attitudes towards both breast and cervical screening programmes, though education was needed to correct some misconceptions. Recommen dations from the study centred on the need to make services more culturally acceptable and accessible.