Qualitative Analysis
Patients' responses to the open-ended questions
were entered into the computer verbatim and analyzed
using basic content analysis.8-9 For this purpose,
interview transcripts were read multiple times
and responses coded into recurring concepts, which
were then sorted and grouped into categories of similar
content. The generated categories were grouped
along two axes into those that hinder cancer screening
behavior (barriers) and those that encourage cancer
screening behavior in patients (facilitators).
Finally, in order to provide context for patients'
responses, we calculated the frequencies of the
responses to each of the questions (Table 1).