Figure 1.

Recruitment procedure for participants living with chronic pain. *The Chronic Pain Treatment (COPE) cohort study included individuals meeting the following eligibility criteria: (1) reporting persistent or recurrent pain for more than 3 months; (2) being at least 18 years of age; (3) being able to complete a web‐based questionnaire in French and (4) living in the province of Quebec. **The email offering to participate in the focus group was sent to 50 cohort participants in June 2020, 50 cohort participants in July 2020, and 50 cohort participants in August 2020. ***Two participants expressed their interest to participate but were not enrolled because they were unavailable on the scheduled date for the last focus group (FG)