Table 1 Concept elicitation and cognitive interview discussion topics

Examples of nurse discussion topics

• What are cancer patients’ expectation of chemotherapy?

• How do cancer patients balance chemotherapy treatment satisfaction and treatment effectiveness in light of experiences of side effects?

• What are patient expectations of G-CSF primary prophylaxis treatment?

• What are patient experiences of G-CSF primary prophylaxis?

• What specific challenges or burdens do patients face with each mode of administration (eg, intravenous, subcutaneous, OBI)?

Examples of patient discussion topics

• What were the most important factors that determine whether your chemotherapy treatment experience was positive?

• How do you know that your G-CSF treatment was working well for you?

• What were the most important factors that determine whether your G-CSF treatment experience was positive?

• What are the main advantages/disadvantages of the OBI treatment?

SEQ discussion topics

• What are your first impressions of this questionnaire? What did you think about the length of the questionnaire? Would you remove or change any questions to the questionnaire?

• What did the instructions ask you to do? Would you change anything about the instructions?

• What does [item] mean to you? What were you thinking about when you selected your answer?

• Which answer did you choose? What do you think of the response options?

• How could the question be made clearer?