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Participants’ perceived barriers to participation include a lack of information and knowledge about the purpose of the HPV vaccination and Pap smears, about the vaccination’s possible side effects, and about how HPV is transmitted.
Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Being a virgin before marriage and being obedient to your faith are mentioned as important religious values. The HPV vaccination is also considered as positive, as it protects women from cervical cancer and is considered as similar to other childhood vaccinations. You can hardly find Somalian women in bars and cafes if you venture to go to Somalia to find a wife there. Third, data triangulation has been reached by collecting data from different sources, including individual interviews and natural group interviews.Mothers are less content with the idea of individual decision making because it restricts their ability to determine their daughters’ health choices. Rahma was working for such famous model agencies as Next Model Management (Paris), Models 1, MD Management, Just WM. Susceptibility to HPV is perceived to be low for Somali girls because they are expected to not engage in premarital sex. Some mothers perceive a limit of freedom for determining their daughters’ health actions because of the experienced information gap and the ‘dominant’ Dutch culture, in which decision-making is individualized.
To register, you need to fill in the registration form, create a profile, and add several pictures to the profile page. Pap smears performed by a male practitioner and FGM have been reported earlier as barriers to participation [ 13, 16, 34].
Dutch education strategies about cervical cancer deviate from ways of exchanging information within the Somali community.