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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 31.
Published in final edited form as: Health Commun. 2011 Jan;26(1):48–58. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2011.527621

TABLE 1.

General Interview Questions

1. Can you tell me the story of how you received the news of your cancer diagnosis the first time?*
2. So now you’ve been told that your cancer has returned. Can you tell me how you found out about your recurrence and what has happened since then?*
3. Did you learn anything in your first treatment experience that you are putting to use in this one?
4. Is the communication you are having with your doctor now what you expected?
5. How does your doctor talk to you about your prognosis?
6. How does your doctor help you stay hopeful?
7. Can you give me an example of how you and your doctor make decisions?
8. How did you build trust with your doctor? Are there specific things he or she does that makes you feel confident?
*

These questions are intended to prompt narrative accounts. Participants were also asked to elaborate on topics within the narratives that matched other domains shown here.