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Barriers, facilitators, and recommendations for enhancing cervical cancer screening uptake among migrants in the UK: a scoping review protocol. [Protocol]

Idehen, Esther; Fraser, Matthew; Emenike, Nkechi; Alexander, Lyndsay

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Nkechi Emenike



Abstract

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women globally, with a high incidence among migrants, even in high-income countries offering free screening services. Evidence shows this disease is preventable through vaccination and regular cervical screening; however, less utilisation of this service has been observed among the migrant population. The international female migrant population, including a considerable proportion of working-age is increasing globally due to conflicts, education, employment, family reunions, and seeking a better life abroad. Migrant's healthcare services utilisation may be influenced by language, cultural and religious beliefs, healthcare-seeking behaviours, and the different healthcare systems in host countries/their home countries of origin. Nevertheless, equity in access to healthcare, including cervical screening uptake, constitutes a human right for all; thus, there is a need to map the literature on influencing factors on cervical screening uptake among migrant women in the UK. This scoping review aims to map the literature on facilitators, barriers, and recommendations for enhancing cervical screening uptake among migrants in the UK. This scoping review will consider studies that explore barriers, facilitators, and recommendations for enhancing cervical screening uptake among the migrant population in the UK (aged 25-64): systematic/non-systematic reviews that met the inclusion criteria and used qualitative, quantitative, and mixed studies. MEDLINE, CINAHL, SCOPUS, and Gray literature on relevant studies in English from 2014-2024, extracted and reviewed by two reviewers. Covidence (Veritas Health Innovation, Melbourne, Australia) will be utilised to assist with the process. Titles and abstracts will be screened by the screening team and two reviewers (20% or more), and others by one reviewer. The process will be repeated for full-text reviews and data one and second reviewers will extract data within the Covidence. The search results and the study inclusion process will be reported in full in tables and flow diagrams.

Citation

IDEHEN, E., FRASER, M., EMENIKE, N. and ALEXANDER, L. 2024. Barriers, facilitators, and recommendations for enhancing cervical cancer screening uptake among migrants in the UK: a scoping review protocol. [Protocol]. Hosted on OSF [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Z8G5T

Other Type Protocol
Online Publication Date Apr 25, 2024
Publication Date Apr 30, 2024
Deposit Date Jan 10, 2025
Publicly Available Date Jan 13, 2025
Publisher OSF: Center for Open Science
DOI https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Z8G5T
Keywords Access; Equity; Cervical cancer/screening; Healthcare service; Migrants; Participation; UK
Public URL https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2656493
Additional Information This protocol was first registered on OSF on the 25th April 2024. This version was last edited 30th April 2024.

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