Table 2.

Sample Focus Group Question

Desired Content of Intervention

1. What are some of the ways your sexuality, sex life, or sexual satisfaction have been impacted by your breast cancer surgeries and treatments? 2. At what point in your cancer journey did your sexuality, sex life, or sexual satisfaction begin to change as a result of your breast cancer surgery or treatment? 3. What are some of the physical changes that you experienced related to your sexual function? What about other ways, like sexual desire or interest? 4. What has been the hardest or most bothersome of these changes? 5. How did these changes impact your partner? How about your relationship with your partner? 6. How have you and your partner talked about these concerns? 7. How have you dealt with these changes? 8. What kinds of treatments or aids have you used to try to resolve these problems? 9. If we told you there was a brief program that you could participate in that would help you cope with these challenges, what are the three most important issues or problems you’d hope this program would address?

Desired Format of Intervention

10. Some women have discussed wanting a program that would include their partners. What are your thoughts about this? How important would it be to include your partner? How likely do you think your partner would be to participate? 11. We have been considering a telephone-based format to this intervention. What benefits do you see from this format? What drawbacks do you see from this format? 12. At what point in the course of your cancer journey would this be most helpful? 13. What kinds of resources would you like to see included in this program?