Indigenous women’s experiences of cervical cancer screening: Incorporating Indigenous ways of knowing into a systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative research
Due to historical and contextual factors, cervical cancer is typically detected at a later stage in Indigenous women, and so has higher morbidity and mortality. Increasing participation in cervical cancer screening (CCS) could ameliorate this health inequity by detecting cancer when it is more easily treatable. To understand the perspectives, preferences, and experiences of Indigenous women related to participation in CCS, we conducted a systematic review and meta-synthesis of nine qualitative research studies. To advance decolonised qualitative evidence synthesis approaches, we use a modified version of the