FIG. 1.

Perceived financial barriers to cervical cancer screening (N = 702). This figure shows the prevalence of perceived financial barriers to screening. Perceived barriers were assessed using the following survey question: “What are some reasons that you haven't had a Pap smear recently?” Answer options included “cost” and “no insurance,” in addition to other nonfinancial barriers. Participants were asked to mark all that apply. For each reason selected, participants were then asked to indicate, more specifically, what about that reason made it difficult to be screened. Open-ended responses were qualitatively coded as belonging to the discrete categories reported in the above figure. Pap, Papanicolaou.