How do doctors perceive and use patient quality of life? Findings from focus group interviews with hospital doctors and general practitioners

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 1895-1901
Author(s):  
Pierre Caillault ◽  
Marianne Bourdon ◽  
Jean-Benoit Hardouin ◽  
Leïla Moret
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Hospital Doctors ◽  
Group Interviews

scholarly journals Complementing or conflicting? How pharmacists and physicians position the community pharmacist

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 2078
Author(s):  
Hilde Rakvaag ◽  
Gunn E. Søreide ◽  
Eivind Meland ◽  
Reidun L. Kjome
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Interprofessional Collaboration ◽  
Community Pharmacists ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Positioning Theory ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Group Interviews

Background: Interprofessional collaboration between pharmacists and physicians in primary care has been linked to improved patient outcomes. How professionals position themselves and each other can shed light upon their relationship, and positioning theory can be used as a tool to better understand intergroup relations. Objectives: 1) To identify how community pharmacists position themselves, and how they are positioned by general practitioners. 2) To assess how well these positions correspond, how the positions align with a proactive position for the pharmacists, and discuss how the positions could potentially impact collaboration. Methods: In this qualitative study, data were collected through six focus group interviews held between June and October 2019, three with pharmacists and three with physicians. The focus group interviews were conducted using a semi-structured interview guide. Data were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using the Systematic text condensation method. Positioning theory was used as a theoretical framework to identify the positions assigned to community pharmacists by the pharmacists themselves and by the physicians. Results: Twelve pharmacists and ten physicians participated. The pharmacists positioned themselves as the “last line of defense”, “bridge-builders”, “outsiders” – with responsibility, but with a lack of information and authority – and “practical problem solvers”. The physicians positioned pharmacists as “a useful checkpoint”, “non-clinicians” and “unknown”. Conclusions: The study revealed both commonalities and disagreements in how community pharmacists position themselves and are positioned by general practitioners. Few of the positions assigned to pharmacists by the physicians support an active role for the pharmacists, while the pharmacists´ positioning of themselves is more diverse. The physicians´ positioning of pharmacists as an unknown group represents a major challenge for collaboration. Increasing the two professions´ knowledge of each other may help produce new positions that are more coordinated, and thus more supportive towards collaboration.

scholarly journals What do general practitioners think about an online self-regulation programme for health promotion? Focus group interviews

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolien Plaete ◽  
Geert Crombez ◽  
Ann DeSmet ◽  
Myriam Deveugele ◽  
Maïté Verloigne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Promotion Focus ◽  
Group Interviews

scholarly journals Projects to improve mathematics performance at a university of technology

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-377
Author(s):  
Ina Louw
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Mathematics Performance ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Assessment Strategies

Lecturers at tertiary institutions have been expressing concern about the quality of students in mathematics for a long time now. Blame is usually placed at the door of secondary schools, but through put figures are still determining state subsidies and as such necessitate institutions to constantly revisit their efforts in terms of improving performance in mathematics. In this article, the results of two studies to improve the mathematics performance at a technical university are reported. The first study took place at the former Technikon Northern Gauteng and was an action research project with an experimental design. The study entailed the implementation of tutorial sessions and it revealed certain traits of tertiary mathematics education. Data were collected through structured observation, questionnaires and focus group interviews. A standardized questionnaire, Study Orientation Questionnaire in Maths (SOM), was introduced and “study habits” was the field in the test that featured most significantly in both the experimental and the control groups. The results revealed, inter alia, that timely assessment is needed to detect and correct misconceptions as soon as possible. It also pointed out that attendance of lectures (and tutorials) impacted strongly on performance. Lastly, it was found that students preferred communicating mathematics through the medium of English and not by using their mother tongue. The second project was conducted at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) and consisted of an investigation into assessment practices in first year mathematics. The study was executed with action research as strategy and data were collected through interviews, questionnaires and focus group interviews. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected and respondents were exposed to contemporary assessment strategies as suggested by OBE. The aim of the study was to enhance the respondents’ insight into contemporary assessment strategies and to empower them to execute their assessment in a more accountable way. The merger of the institution was still underway at the time, which left many respondents with questions and uncertainties about their future. Some of the findings were, inter alia, that some respondents were convinced that new assessment strategies would lower the standard of teaching; some respondents mentioned the poor quality of students and were convinced that the Tshwane University of Technology would benefit from reviewing their admission criteria, and respondents cited large class groups, lack of marking assistance and ignorance about Outcomes Based Education (OBE) as reasons for failing to undertake assessment renewal. In the mean time class groups got even bigger and a new solution needs to be found as a matter of urgency

scholarly journals The quality of radiation care: The results of focus group interviews and concept mapping to explore the patient’s perspective

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Nijman ◽  
Herman Sixma ◽  
Baukelien van Triest ◽  
Ronald B. Keus ◽  
Michelle Hendriks
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Patient’S Perspective ◽  
Group Interviews

scholarly journals How is defensive medicine understood and experienced in a primary care setting? A qualitative focus group study among Danish general practitioners

BMJ Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. e019851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Assing Hvidt ◽  
Jesper Lykkegaard ◽  
Line Bjørnskov Pedersen ◽  
Kjeld Møller Pedersen ◽  
Anders Munck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Progressive Increase ◽  
Risk Tolerance ◽  
Defensive Medicine ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Focus Group Study ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Group Interviews

ObjectivesRecent years have witnessed a progressive increase in defensive medicine (DM) in several Western welfare countries. In Danish primary and secondary care, documentation on the extent of DM is lacking. Before investigating the extent of DM, we wanted to explore how the phenomenon is understood and experienced in the context of general practice in Denmark. The objective of the study was to describe the phenomenon of DM as understood and experienced by Danish general practitioners (GPs).DesignA qualitative methodology was employed and data were generated through six focus group interviews with three to eight GPs per group (n=28) recruited from the Region of Southern Denmark. Data were analysed using a thematic content analysis inspired by a hermeneutic-phenomenological focus on understanding and meaning.ResultsDM is understood as unnecessary and meaningless medical actions, carried out mainly because of external demands that run counter to the GP’s professionalism. Several sources of pressure to act defensively were identified by the GPs: the system’s pressure to meet external regulations, demands from consumerist patients and a culture among GPs and peers of infallibility and zero-risk tolerance.ConclusionsGPs understand DM as unnecessary and meaningless actions driven by external demands instead of a focus on the patient’s problem. GPs consider defensive actions to be carried out as a result of succumbing to various sources of pressure deriving from the system, the patients, the GPs themselves and peers.

Management Strategy for Distributing Questionnaires and Interview Guidelines in the Research Data Collection Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-111
Author(s):  
Po. Abas Sunarya ◽  
George Iwan Marantika ◽  
Adam Faturahman
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Good Management ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Data Collection Process ◽  
Group Interviews

Writing can mean lowering or describing graphic symbols that describe a languageunderstood by someone. For a researcher, management of research preparation is a veryimportant step because this step greatly determines the success or failure of all researchactivities. Before a person starts with research activities, he must make a written plan commonlyreferred to as the management of research data collection. In the process of collecting researchdata, of course we can do the management of questionnaires as well as the preparation ofinterview guidelines to disseminate and obtain accurate information. With the arrangement ofplanning and conducting interviews: the ethics of conducting interviews, the advantages anddisadvantages of interviews, the formulation of interview questions, the schedule of interviews,group and focus group interviews, interviews using recording devices, and interview bias.making a questionnaire must be designed with very good management by giving to theinformation needed, in accordance with the problem and all that does not cause problems at thestage of analysis and interpretation.

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