A cross-sectional study of barriers to cervical cancer screening uptake in Ghana: An application of the health belief model

• Ama G. Ampofo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ama G. Ampofo, Afia D. Adumatta, Esther Owusu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tyzy2009@hotmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Nursing, Garden City University College, Kumasi, Ghana, Health Behaviour Research Collaborative, Priority Research Centre for Health Behaviour, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, Hunter Medical Research Institute, New Lambton Heights, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3730-6313

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• Afia D. Adumatta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ama G. Ampofo, Afia D. Adumatta, Esther Owusu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, Garden City University College, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Esther Owusu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ama G. Ampofo, Afia D. Adumatta, Esther Owusu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, Garden City University College, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Kofi Awuviry-Newton

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Priority Research Centre for Generational Health and Ageing, Faculty of Health and Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia

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