Breast Cancer Screening in Relation to Access Barriers to Health Care System

A survey of 370 female school teachers working at governmental schools was conducted to investigate access barriers for breast screening. A stratified sampling was used to select schools. All female teachers aged 34-45 years old were invited to fill out the self-administered questionnaire to investigate access barriers to health care system. The results revealed up to 46 % of women encountered access barriers including limited resources, time limitation, lack of privacy, crowdedness and geographical barriers for the treatment abroad. Women perceived lower access barriers if they were medically insured P=0.03, and resided out camp P=0.00. Negative attitudes and feeling toward breast screening such as fear were identified as barriers for approximately a half of the women. Women with children expressed higher negative attitudes and feeling toward breast cancer screening P=0.05.