A Practical Guide to Focus-Group Research

A Terapia Ocupacional desenvolve sua prática e estudo sobre as atividades humanas com a utilização de recursos e instrumentos terapêuticos, que podem beneficiar o processo de envelhecimento. Nesse sentido, o estudo visou reconhecer e descrever a percepção de mulheres com idade entre 40 e 60 anos de idade, participantes de um grupo de Terapia Ocupacional, quanto às repercussões da utilização de um Guia Prático de Alongamento, no desempenho das atividades cotidianas. Para tanto, realizou-se uma pesquisa qualitativa, exploratória e descritiva, por meio de Grupo Focal. Verificou-se que a utilização do Guia influenciou no controle da dor, na autonomia para realização de atividades de vida diária e na percepção do próprio corpo das participantes do estudo. Conclui-se que o Guia Prático de Alongamento é uma ferramenta simples, porém relevante para melhorar a consciência corporal, a autonomia e independência de indivíduos em processo de envelhecimento, sugerindo-o como um instrumento indicado para outras populações. AbstractOccupational Therapy carries out the practice and study of human activities by employing therapeutic resources and instruments, which can benefit the aging process. Thus, the aim of this study was to identify and describe the perception of women between the ages of 40 and 60 in an Occupational Therapy group regarding the effects of using a Practical Guide to Stretching on the performance of their daily activities. In that sense, a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive Focus Group research was carried out. It was verified that the use of the Practical Guide had an influence on participants' pain control, autonomy to perform daily activities and body perception. It was concluded that the Practical Guide to Stretching is a simple but relevant tool that helps aging individuals improve their body awareness, autonomy and independence. It is also a suitable tool for other populations.Keywords: Muscle Stretching Exercises; Qualitative Research; Occupational Therapy.

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Using Symbols and Shapes for Analysis in Small Focus Group Research

The Qualitative Report ◽

10.46743/2160-3715/2016.2388 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Oladokun Omojola

Keyword(s):

Focus Group ◽

Prima Facie ◽

Group Method ◽

Group Discussions ◽

Focus Group Research ◽

Group Research ◽

Research Findings ◽

Small Focus ◽

Focus Group Method

Substantial literature exists to support the growing importance of focus group research, having been around for decades. Its ubiquity under the scholarship radar is not in doubt while the analyses of findings commonly seen are scholarly and significantly sophisticated. However, these analyses have been found to be limited in scope for fresh adopters of the focus group method, non-literate beneficiaries of research findings and business people who are critically averse to lengthy textual statements about outcomes. This article introduces the use of symbols as a means of analyzing responses from small focus group discussions. It attempts to demonstrate that using symbols can substantially assist in the prima facie determination of perceptions from a focus group membership, its patterns of agreement and disagreement, as well as the sequence of its discussions.

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Image and Symbolic Leadership: Using Focus Group Research to Bridge the Gaps

Journal of Public Relations Research ◽

10.1207/s1532754xjprr0502_04 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 95-125 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Larissa A. Grunig

Keyword(s):

Focus Group ◽

Focus Group Research ◽

Group Research ◽

Symbolic Leadership

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The Practical Handbook and Guide to Focus Group Research

Journal of Marketing Research ◽

10.2307/3172675 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 121 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Edward F. McQuarrie ◽

Thomas L. Greenbaum ◽

Jane Farley

Keyword(s):

Focus Group ◽

Focus Group Research ◽

Group Research

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Using Focus Group Research in Exploring the Relationships between Youth, Risk and Social Position

Sociological Research Online ◽

10.5153/sro.2086 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 11-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Dave Merryweather

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Focus Group ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Social Position ◽

Group Method ◽

Conversational Interaction ◽

Focus Group Research ◽

Group Research ◽

Using Data ◽

Focus Group Method

This paper draws upon current research to consider the value of the focus group method for exploring the relationships between youth, risk and social position. Groups comprising young people occupying similar social positions were used to generate talk about aspects of everyday life regarded as risk. Through the processes of conversational interaction facilitated by the focus group method, participants co-produced detailed risk narratives, understood here in Bourdieu's terms as product and producer of the habitus related to social position. Using data from several of the focus groups I illustrate how the method was especially useful in generating narratives indicative of how risks were experienced and understood in different ways according to social positions of class, gender and ethnicity. Such risk narratives also reproduced distinctions between and within different social positions. Consideration is given to certain limitations of the focus group method in respect of this research. Ultimately, however, the ability of the method to generate collaborative narratives reflective of shared social position is viewed as an invaluable means for developing a rich and nuanced account of the relations between youth and risk.

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