Question

Research Proposal:

Hypothesis: 'the religious and cultural barrier stops the Muslim women from having breast cancer screening with mammography and this leads to an increased prevalence of breast cancer among the Muslim women of the USA'

Fill out the following questions:

A. Describe the problem that you are in investigating in the hypothesis and what is currently known about the topic.

B. What the gap in knowledge is and what is one specific question that you could be investigating.

C. Think of a minimum of one sub-question to the specific question above.

If possible; attach an URL for the websites used.

Answer 1

A. The problem is the religious and cultural beliefs in muslims acts as a barrier for doing mammography as a screening for breast cancer .

According to muslims migrated to US , mammography is not a routine required screening in their past countries . It is a diagnostic test done when any unusual signs like lump is detected . Muslims say "Health is an amana ".Amana is an islamic ethical concept and they also say Allah tells to take care of our ourselves. They also believe that body is their loan from god and he will take care of them. Muslim women practices their religious action of prayer and fasting which is believed to decrease their illness , prevent it and even cures diseases.

B. Religious values has more influence on preventive health practices than socioeconomic factors and new cultures after migrating to US. The question that could be investigated is "Preventive health practice in which way found out to be hazardous ?":

C. Does any population rate got affected more even after carrying out preventive health practice like mammography?