Management and Human Factors: Exploratory Research With Focus Groups

Focus Groups as Qualitative Research PLANNING AND RESEARCH DESIGN FOR FOCUS GROUPS

Focus Groups as Qualitative Research

Using focus groups in disability research.

Qualitative health service research has increasingly drawn on focus groups to inform health policy and intervention design. Focus groups provide opportunities to engage in the development and evaluation of health services for those service users who are often excluded from other forms of data collection. Increasingly, people with disabilities have been recognized as a marginalized group in heal...

Virtual Focus Groups: New Frontiers in Research

New information and communication technologies in the form of learning management systems provide unique and inventive opportunities for qualitative researchers. Their intrinsic ability to record discursive data in text format accurately and to provide safe, secure, and anonymous environments for participants makes them amenable for use as advanced research tools. In this article, the authors r...

Ganando Confianza: Research Focus Groups with Immigrant Mexican Mothers.

Immigrant families with children with developmental disabilities must be served using culturally sensitive approaches to service and research to maximize treatment benefits. In an effort to better understand cultural issues relevant to the provision of parenting programs for immigrant Mexican mothers of children with developmental disabilities, we conducted sustained focus groups through which ...