Acculturation Strategies and Pap Screening Uptake among Sub-Saharan African Immigrants (SAIs)

Adebola Adegboyega, Jia-Rong Wu and Gia Mudd-Martin
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Adebola Adegboyega: College of Nursing, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0232, USA
Jia-Rong Wu: College of Nursing, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0232, USA
Gia Mudd-Martin: College of Nursing, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0232, USA

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 24, 1-10

Abstract: Although regular cervical cancer screening can prevent cervical cancer, screening utilization remains low among immigrant population including sub-Saharan African immigrants (SAIs). Acculturation is a complex process, which can lead to adoption of positive or negative health behaviors from the dominant culture. Acculturation strategies are the varying ways in which individuals seek to go about their acculturation by either maintaining or rejecting their own cultural values ip or accepting or rejecting the host culture’s cultural values. Cervical cancer screening behaviors among SAI women may be influenced by their acculturation strategies. We conducted a secondary analysis of data to examine the relationship between acculturation strategies and Pap screening among 99 SAI women recruited from community settings. Data were collected on Pap screening behavior and acculturation strategy. Traditionalists and Integrationists were the dominant acculturation strategies; 32.3% women were Traditionalists and 67.7% Integrationists. From the logistic regression models, Integrationists had seven times the odds of having ever been screened compared to Traditionalists (OR = 7.08, 95% CI = 1.54–28.91). Cervical cancer screening interventions should prioritize Traditionalists for cancer screening. Acculturation strategies may be used to tailor cancer prevention and control for SAIs. More research among a larger SAI women sample is warranted to further our understanding of Pap screening patterns and acculturation strategies.

Keywords: pap screening; sub-Saharan African immigrants (SAIs); acculturation; cervical cancer screening (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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