Table 1.

Questions Used for Discussion Group Interviews

Section 1 – General Health and Cancer:

1. What does health or being healthy mean to you?

2. What does cancer or a cancer diagnosis mean to you?

3. How does cancer impact your community?

Section 2 – Health and Culture

1. What are the customs in the Chuukese/Marshallese culture that would make you feel uncomfortable answering questions surrounding cancer and health?

2. What could be done to help make you feel more comfortable?

3. Do you or how do you share health/cancer information with the public in Chuuk/ the Marshall Islands?

4. How have you ever answered questions about health/cancer?

5. How could we best ask questions about health with Chuukese/Marshallese people

6. How could we get Chuukese/Marshallese people together to ask health questions?

7. What has been your experience in obtaining healthcare, have you experienced discrimination in this setting?

Section 3 – Survey Design and Administration

1. What customs in the Chuukese/Marshallese culture would support people answering a survey about health and cancer?

2. What do you think is the best way we can reach people from the Chuukese/Marshallese community to promote taking a survey?

3. What would make you and other Chuukese/Marshallese people more likely to agree to answer survey questions surrounding cancer?

4. How important would it be to administer the survey in the Chuukese or Marshallese language?

5. If a written survey is used, how much help would people need to complete a survey?

6. How important would it be to have someone who is Chuukese/Marshallese help administer the survey?

7. How much time would people be willing to give to complete a survey?