Table 2 Study and participant details of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Studies
From: A qualitative exploration of cervical and breast cancer stigma in Karnataka, India
Parameter | Breast Cancer Study | Cervical Cancer Study | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Location | Tertiary care hospital: St. Johns Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka | Community based: Bangalore Rural and Chikkaballapura Districts, Karnataka through collaboration with Cancer Care India (CCI), an NGO that provides cervical cancer education, screening, diagnostic and treatment services. | ||||
Data collection methods | - In-depth interviews | - Focus Group Discussions (FGD) - In-depth interviews (IDI) | ||||
Participants | Inclusion Criteria | |||||
- Patients with a histo-pathologically confirmed diagnosis of breast cancer with early, advanced and metastatic disease, their caregivers, and healthcare providers - Above age 18 and fluent in English, Kannada, or Tamil | - FGD inclusion criteria: Women eligible for screening (30–45 years, 46–60 years) and husbands of women in this age range - IDI inclusion criteria: Women in the exposed villages who had undergone screening, frontline health care workers (physicians, nurses and community health workers), and community leaders (community day care workers, teachers, members of village government) | |||||
Sample size | ||||||
Participants | Number of IDIs | Participants | Number of FDGs | Number of IDIs | Total number of individuals | |
Patients | 27 | Exposed Villagesb | ||||
Primary caregivers | 22 | Women | 4 | Â | 43 | |
Screened women | Â | 6 | 6 | |||
Healthcare providers | 10 | Husbands | 2 | Â | 21 | |
Unexposed Villagesc | ||||||
Total | 59 | Younger Women | 4 | Â | 38 | |
Husbands | 2 | Â | 18 | |||
Healthcare Providers | Â | 8a | 10 | |||
Community Leaders | Â | 10a | 11 | |||
Total | 12 | 24 | 147 | |||
Data Analysis software | NVivo 9.2 | NVivo 9.2 and Atlas Ti | ||||