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Table 2 Questions from the focus group discussion script

From: Perceptions about hemodialysis and transplantation among African American adults with end-stage renal disease: inferences from focus groups

1)

Are you ever worried about your health?

2)

Do you discuss your health with anyone?

3)

How healthy do you consider yourself to be right now?

4)

On the piece of paper in front of you, I would like you to write three words that first come to mind when you think of getting a kidney transplant?

5)

What are some reasons you think that people don’t get a transplant?

6)

What are the benefits of getting a kidney transplant?

7)

What are the disadvantages of getting a kidney transplant?

8)

Do you think gender would affect a person’s pursuit for a kidney transplant?

9)

Do you think race, a black or a white person, would affect a person’s desire for a kidney transplant?

10)

Do you think age would affect a person’s desire for a kidney transplant?

11)

Do you have any concerns about transplant surgery? What are they?

12)

Has your nephrologists talked to you about getting a transplant enough?