Frequencies of Barriers and
Facilitators
In order to provide context for patients' responses,
we calculated the frequencies of common
responses to the open-ended questions asked during
the interviews separately for each cancer screening.
Tables 3 and 4 show the prevalence of the various
concepts elicited from each open-ended question.
Because most patients had previously had a mammogram
and a Pap test, the number of women who
were asked about barriers to these tests was quite
low, and we do not present the frequencies of barriers
for either test in the tables. As shown in Table 3,
medical advice was the most common facilitator cited
by patients across all three cancer screening
behaviors, followed by routine medical care and car