| Section 1: Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Treatment and Experience | |
| 1.1 | Can you tell us how much you knew about breast cancer prior to your diagnosis? |
| (a) | What did you know about the symptoms of breast cancer? |
| (b) | What did you know about how to diagnose breast cancer (breast screening, mammography)? |
| (c) | Did you know how breast cancer is treated and where to go for the treatment? |
| 1.2 | Can you tell us about your experience with breast cancer? |
| (a) | When and how did you know you have cancer? |
| (b) | What was your first reaction when you were first diagnosed with breast cancer? |
| (c) | What treatment did you go through since you were diagnosed with breast cancer? |
| (d) | Did you do any breast screening before your breast cancer diagnosis? When did you do the last mammography? |
| Section 2: Breast cancer diagnosis and distress | |
| 2.1 | Tell us about any distress that you have experienced during the process of diagnosis and treatment of cancer |
| (a) | Emotional/psychological distress? Emotional distress during the process of treatment, change in the physical appearance |
| (b) | Financial distress? Distress due to impact on the financial situation. |
| (c) | Social isolation? (Relationship issues, heightened fear of rejection from partner loneliness) |
| (d) | Anxious about cancer recurrence |
| Section 3: Impact of breast cancer on quality of life | |
| 3.1 | How has cancer impacted your daily life and your overall quality of life? |
| (a) | Daily activities |
| (b) | Work (paid work) |
| (c) | Sleep (including sleep deprivation, sleep disturbances, insomnia and so on) |
| (d) | Cognition (memory) |
| (e) | Fatigue |
| (f) | Physical/Body image (body image was associated with mastectomies, breast reconstructive surgery, etc.) |
| (g) | Sexuality (Sexual disorder, discomfort) |
| Section 4: Health services utilisation | |
| 4.1 | Which health services are currently available to you (e.g., reproductive services, doctor’s surgery and specialist services)? |
| 4.2 | Which of these services did you utilise? Tell us your experience of using these services |
| 4.3 | What health services are not available to you (e.g., reproductive services, doctor’s surgery and specialist services)? |
| 4.4 | What women’s health services (including reproductive health) would you like to have access to improve your health? |