Facilitators and barriers to colorectal cancer screening using the immunochemical faecal occult blood test among an average-risk population in semi-rural Malaysia: A qualitative study

• Kogila Ramanathan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kogila Ramanathan, Désirée Schliemann

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Public Health, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0772-420X

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• Désirée Schliemann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kogila Ramanathan, Désirée Schliemann

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Public Health and UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8746-3002

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• Nor Saleha Binti Ibrahim Tamin,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Non-communicable Disease—Cancer Unit, Ministry of Health Malaysia, Putrajaya, Malaysia

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• Devi Mohan,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Public Health, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

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• Michael Donnelly ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: michael.donnelly@qub.ac.uk (MD); tintin.su@monash.edu (TTS)

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work. MD and TTS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Centre for Public Health and UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

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• Tin Tin Su

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: michael.donnelly@qub.ac.uk (MD); tintin.su@monash.edu (TTS)

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work. MD and TTS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Global Public Health, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, Centre for Public Health and UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO), Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Subang Jaya, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0387-6406

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