Traditional-Westernizing continuum of change in screening behaviors: comparison between Arab women in Israel and the West Bank

摘要: Health perceptions are changing, but the pace of change varies across societies, exercising different effects on women's screening behaviors. Our aim is to assess rate mammography and clinical breast examination (CBE) attendance in younger older Arab women Israel West Bank, effect health beliefs A random sample 697 women, 300 from 397 aged 30-65 years, answered questionnaires behaviors, culture-specific barriers, fatalism, worry, beliefs. The participation was 93.5% 98.3% Bank. Higher fatalistic perceptions, traditional beliefs, barriers bodily exposure, social, environmental, personal were reported by Bank compared women. Adjusted lower likelihood attending predicted group (AOR 3.55, 95% CI 1.25-10.11 for AOR 2.36, 1.19-3.65 CBE), higher fatalism 0.52, 0.30-76 0.68, 0.54-92 more 0.61, 0.48-0.80 0.51, 0.39-0.68 self-exposure 0.69, 0.48-0.83 0.76, 0.62-0.95 perceived 0.36, 0.12-1.08 0.77, 0.60-0.98 benefits 1.98, 1.17-3.34 1.39, 1.06-1.81 CBE). Also, adjusted CBE age, religiosity, social barriers. Differences behaviors represent a traditional-westernizing continuum change, also related situational context.