Table 5 Individual domain
Theme 4: Perceived urgency and peril of cancer | |
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Sub-themes | Participant quotations |
1: Fear of death caused by the disease | o You have a fear that “I’m going to die”- FGD 2, 3, 4 o “Cancer makes a person to always be scared, when you have cancer, you’re already thinking that your days have shrunk”- FGD 1 o “I am afraid of it to speak the truth”, “I am also scared of it”- FGD 2,6 o “…the people who have been cut; I know that they die…I’ve never heard of one who has survived after having their second breast cut.”- FGD 4 |
ST2: Fear of disease expenses | o “Maybe it is expensive…maybe the treatment is expensive”- FGD 4 o “I’m not able to get the things that I want and the food as I mentioned earlier that “if I had money, I would be able to buy those pills when they say they can help.”- FGD 2 o “Any and everything is money”- FGD 6 |