Table 1.

Core Focus Group Questions

Themes	Questions	Probes
Barriers to appropriate medical care	What are the major medical problems of Asian Americans?	What are patients’ knowledge / attitudes about HBV?
	In your patient population, what is the prevalence of HBV among Asian Americans?	Why are Asian Americans at high risk?
	What are the barriers to medical care?	Blood attitudes? Language? Transportation? Money?
Outreach	What are the best ways to reach out and educate the Asian American community?	Is there low interest among Asian Americans? Why? What should we do to improve interest?
	What future interventions would be helpful to the Asian American community?	Physician network? Screening? Education? What role can the community MD play?
Clinical knowledge and practice	Describe what you and your patients do to treat HBV	Interferon, Adefovir, Lamivudine, Entacavir? How do most patients get their medicines?
	What are effective alternative and unconventional primary treatments you have prescribed for HBV patients?	What unconventional methods have worked? What have some of your patients done to treat HBV themselves?