Objective: To describe the conduct of women who attend a primary care center in the town of Suba in regard to cervical cytology Methodology: Cross-sectional, observational, descriptive study through a survey of 100 women who attended a point of primary health care in a locality of the city of Bogotá to take a cytology. Results: 94 % of the women know the objective of the test, 60 % of respondents report fear of the result of the cytology. The main reason why the participants decide not to take the cytology are socio-cultural barriers. Conclusions: Although the majority of women expressed knowledge of the importance of the examination and voluntarily decide to access it, they express experiencing different feelings categorized as negative in the face of examination: grief, shame and fear of pain are the main personal barriers that limit access to cytology; however, more than half of the participants report feeling afraid of the results of this examination.