Table 3.
Subcategories, Categories and Themes
| Subcategory | Category |
|---|---|
| Theme 1: opportunity maker system | |
| Comprehensive look at women’s health | Effective health care providers |
| Work motivation | |
| Coherent performance | |
| Work commitment | |
| Positive interaction | |
| Trust in the efficiency and effectiveness of Pap smear | |
| Giving priority to Pap smear | |
| Trusting in health care providers | Health system acceptance from women’s views |
| Believing in the value of services | |
| Theme 2: an opportunity to become acquainted | |
| Adherence to regular screening among important people in life | Seeing other women’s performance |
| Adherence to regular screening among friends | |
| Discussion with others | Social discourse |
| Others’ advice | |
| Formal education | Education |
| Informal education | |
| Theme 3: concern for healthy living | |
| Special sensitivity to health | Necessity of health |
| Need of health for good presentation of roles | |
| Need of health for qualitative living | |
| Acquiring health knowledge | Seeking for health |
| Answering health needs | |
| Do health basics | |
| Theme 4: perception of cancer | |
| The bad nature of the cancer | Horrible cancer |
| A disease with unpleasant outcome | |
| Believing in the importance of early detection of cancer | Believing in the controllability of cancer |
| Believing in the treatability of the cancer |