Table 1.
Focus group moderator guide topics and example questions
| Topic | Questions |
|---|---|
| Breast cancer beliefs and attitudes | What comes to mind when I mention the word breast cancer? |
| Why do you think a person gets breast cancer? | |
| If one of your close relatives had breast cancer, do you think they would tell you? | |
| Health communication, motivation, and decision-making | How is personal health history or health concerns communicated in your family? |
| How are decisions about lifestyles such as eating habits and exercises made in your family? | |
| How are medical decisions such as treatment for illness, health screening for disease prevention or annual health examination made in your family? | |
| Risk factor knowledge and perceptions of severity | Please tell me what influences breast cancer risk. In what ways? |
| What do you know about the relationship between breast feeding and breast cancer? | |
| What do you know about breast cancer being passed down through families? | |
| Perceived barriers and benefits of screening and treatment | If you were recommended a mammogram by a physician, would you undergo it? If “no”, why not? |
| What difficulties or challenges, if any, have you encountered in getting breast examination, mammography? | |
| What challenges might South Asian women encounter in getting breast exam, mammography? | |
| What do you think about breast cancer being cured? |