Maintaining your focus in focus groups: Avoiding common mistakes
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Maintaining your focus in focus groups: avoiding common mistakes.
Focus groups are used frequently in nursing research as a method for collecting qualitative data. However, due to inadequate planning or execution, the results can be of poor quality or even worthless. A well-defined purpose, carefully planned environment, and well trained personnel are discussed as the cornerstones to focus group success. This article sets the stage with a description of a wel...
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عنوان ژورنال: Research in Nursing & Health
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0160-6891
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20063