Table 2.

BREAST-Q: expectations for reconstruction example question.

Response	Code for response
Imagine yourself 1 year after your surgery. What do you expect the shape of your reconstructed breast to be like?
A very different shape from my natural breast(s)	1
A similar shape to my natural breast(s)	2
Exactly the same shape as my natural breast(s)	3
I don’t know	dk
How similar (symmetric) do you expect your breasts to look when you are unclothed?
My breasts will look very different from each other	1
My breasts will look similar to each other	2
My breasts will look exactly the same	3
I don’t know	dk