Table 1.

Summary of expert committee comments made during the translation and cultural adaptation processes.

Question Number	Comment	Issue	Decision
All	Expression: “Your cancer”	Appropriateness for people living with and beyond cancer	Replace “your cancer” by “a cancer” or just “cancer”
All	Terminology specific to the clinical context	Semantic equivalence	Verify the accuracy and adapt where needed
All	Passages using different phrasing to communicate the same meaning	Conceptual equivalence	Reconcile by retaining phrasings closer to those used in the original version
Q1	Terminology specific to insurance	Item equivalence	Verify the accuracy and adapt as needed
Q2	Terminology specific to insurance for life-threatening disease	Item equivalence	Verify the accuracy and adapt as needed
Q4	Uneven phrasing in subquestions 4a to 4j	Semantic equivalence and uniformity	Uniformize the phrasing
Q9	Negative phrasing: “lesser value housing”/“maison de valeur moindre”	Appropriateness for persons living with and beyond cancer	Replace by a positive phrasing: “more affordable housing”/“maison plus abordable”
Q12 and Q13	Designation of the participant in a column of the table: “patient”	Appropriateness for persons living with and beyond cancer	Replace “patient” by “you”
Q15	Choice of income categories	Comparability with national survey instruments	Harmonize with Statistics Canada categories
N.A.	Maladapted coping strategies remain unaddressed	Clinical relevance	Add a question: Have you or any of your caregivers taken any of the following actions for financial reasons? (a)Skip an appointment with your physician (b)Refuse a treatment (c)Postpone filling a prescription (d)Skip a dose of a prescribed drug (e)Cut pills in half (f)None of the above