scholarly journals G244(P) Young People Get ACTIVE! Focus Group Involvement to Improve the Experience of Adolescent Paediatric Patients in Emergency Departments

2013 ◽  
Vol 98 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. A109-A109
Author(s):  
K. Sexton ◽  
P. Heinz ◽  
K. Lothian
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Hui To ◽  
Yong‐Kwang Gene Ong ◽  
Shu‐Ling Chong ◽  
Peck Har Ang ◽  
Nur Diana Bte Zakaria ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-107
Author(s):  
D. S. Gorbatov ◽  
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P. Yu. Gurushkin ◽  

The purpose of the empirical research described in the article was to study the range of judgments that characterize the social perception of the student youth of Internet news memes with political overtones. The research method was a focus group interview using the Microsoft Teams platform. The four groups included 28 undergraduate students of higher educational institutions of St. Petersburg. The results of the study characterize the attitude of students to attempts to impose political overtones on Internet news memes, reflect their opinions about the mistakes made by the authors, contain arguments about the reasons for the anonymity of the authors of memes, describe the range of views on the problem of the responsibility of the authors of memes for violations of laws. In addition, students ' perceptions about changes in Internet memes, in particular, news memes, in the future were revealed.


2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (88) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Helen Cartwright

The book superstore is promoted not just as a place to buy books but also as a community resource in which to read, learn and socialise: traits that have in combination traditionally been the preserve of the public library. This study investigates the impact of the bookstore environment on public library space. The attitudes and behaviours of library and bookstore users were examined through focus group interviews and a self-completed questionnaire. Clear areas of overlap in the functions of the two sites were found, as was evidence of age and income-related splits in use and perception of bookstores and libraries. Results suggest attention should be paid to the beliefs and behaviours of young people and middle-income earners (the groups most noticeably increasing their use of the bookstore) and to the desired balance of education and recreation in the image and nature of the public library.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ka-Huen Yip

Abstract Objective To explore insights of young people’s experiences and motivations in Pokémon GO in Hong Kong. The perspectives of young people through qualitative focus group interviews. Results Eight focus group discussions with young people (n=45; age from 18-25 years old) recruited in Hong Kong. We analysed the discussions using a thematic approach. Five theme categories emerged from data analysis: missing out or self-regulation, childhood memories of Pokémon, extending virtual-reality exploration, spending more time outdoors for walking and exercise, gathering together and socially interacting with others. This study sets the way for a deeper analysis of motivation factors to young people that indicate the increasing playing location-based game (LBG) via smartphones worldwide among all cohorts of society. This relatively new phenomenon of LBG may impact players’ movement, social activity, and behaviour to gain a common goal into the preferences and effects of playing LBG for young people.


2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Merryweather

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.


Comunicar ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (39) ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charo Lacalle

This article summarizes the main results of an investigation that is part of a project regarding the construction of youth and gender identity in television fiction. The methodology integrates reception analysis (focus group) with data obtained through an anonymous questionnaire, designed to contextualize the results of the qualitative research. Television fiction is the favourite macro-genre of young people, especially women. Broadly speaking, participants appreciate the greater proximity of Spanish fiction, which favours the different mechanisms of identification/projection activated during the reception process, and they acknowledge that TV fiction has a certain didactic nature. The research highlights the more intimate nature of female reception compared to the detachment of the male viewer, who watches fiction less frequently and assimilates it as pure entertainment. Age influences the different modes of reception, while the social class and origin of participants hardly have any impact. Confident, rebellious and ambivalent characters are found to be more interesting than the rest. By contrast, the structure of the story and a major part of the topics addressed by the programme are usually consigned to oblivion, highlighting the importance of selective memory in the interpretative process, as well as suggesting the limited nature of the effects of television fiction. El artículo resume los principales resultados de una investigación integrada en un proyecto más amplio sobre la construcción de la identidad juvenil y de género en la ficción televisiva. La metodología combina el análisis de la recepción («focus group») con los datos obtenidos mediante un cuestionario anónimo, destinados a contextualizar los resultados del estudio cualitativo. La ficción televisiva es el macrogénero preferido por los jóvenes, sobre todo por las mujeres. En general, los participantes aprecian la mayor proximidad de la ficción española, propiciadora de los diferentes mecanismos de identificación/proyección activados en los procesos de recepción, y le reconocen un cierto carácter didáctico. La investigación pone de manifiesto el carácter más intimista de la recepción femenina, frente al mayor distanciamiento de un espectador masculino mucho más inconstante, que asimila la ficción con el puro entretenimiento. La edad influye principalmente en las diferentes modalidades de recepción, mientras que apenas se constata la incidencia de la clase social ni del origen de los participantes. Los personajes seguros de sí mismos, rebeldes y ambivalentes, interesan más que el resto. Por el contrario, la estructura del relato y una buena parte de los temas del programa visionado se relegan generalmente al olvido, lo que revela el peso de la memoria selectiva en los procesos de interpretación y sugiere el carácter limitado de los efectos de la ficción televisiva.


Author(s):  
Madeleine Leonard

This chapter presents an overview and reflection of the range of methods involved in researching teenagers’ spatial practices in a divided city. The research draws on the ‘new sociology of childhood’ as its theoretical framework. This involves seeing young people as competent social actors in their own right. It involves recognising that young people do not simply reflect adult assumptions about the everyday world but develop their own ways of seeing and knowing. It prioritises young people’s points of views and uses methodologies which encourage young people’s voices to be heard. The study utilised a range of methods including questionnaires, focus group discussions, essays and photo prompts and the chapter outlines how each method contributed to the aims and objectives of the research.


Author(s):  
Anna Hickey-Moody ◽  
Marissa Willcox

Materiality communicates complex information, often about the perspectives of people whose voices are silenced, or left off historical records. Material cultures provide indirect archives of such social histories, values and feelings. Examining the expressive qualities of material culture, we draw on data from the trans-national research project ‘Interfaith Childhoods’. This project generates and documents community perspectives on faith, identity and belonging. In response to our data generated through arts workshops with children and focus group discussions with parents, we develop a theoretical framework which observes how the materiality of religion can shape the ways young people and their parents build relationships with those from different religions. Here, we theorise how our empirical evidence makes a case for thinking through visual and material cultures of religion.


2020 ◽  
Vol 105 (9) ◽  
pp. e10.2-e11
Author(s):  
Dania Dahmash ◽  
Chi Huynh ◽  
Daniel Kirby ◽  
David Terry

AimTo identify issues encountered by pharmacy healthcare professionals with regards to problems that they have experienced, complaints received, queries and feedback by the patients or parents or caregivers in terms of medication administration for children and young people aged 0 to18 years old.MethodAn online survey using the Online Surveys tool was devised to obtain healthcare professionals’ perspective regarding medication administration problems encountered by parents, caregivers or paediatric patients when administering or taking their medication at home. The survey was sent to the members of the Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group (NPPG), who represent different geographical areas within the UK and further afield. Informed consent was obtained from participants. This study was reviewed and approved by the Life and Health Sciences Ethics Committee, Aston University.Results37 pharmacists and 1 technician completed the survey. The majority of the respondents 23/38 were currently practicing in England, with 6/38 respondents being registered pharmacists outside the UK, 1/38 was practicing in Northern Ireland, 3/38 within Scotland and 4/38 were practicing in Wales. 71.1% of the respondents strongly agreed that parents or caregivers require further training when it comes to medication delivery to their children. In addition, when asked about their concerns regarding prescribed medication to children aged between 0 to18 years old, respondents expressed a different level of concern regarding each age group. Regarding neonates, the main concern was the suitability of the prescribed formulation and the ability of the parents to accurately measure and administered a low dose volume. In contrast, for children aged between 28 days to 12 years, the common concerns were associated with palatability, which will further reflect upon child compliance and the parent or caregiver’s ability to understand medication instructions and administration. Finally, for older aged children, adherence was a common concern. Furthermore, liquid formulations (suspensions (60.5%), solutions (55.3%) and injections (44.7%)) were predominantly used among children aged 0 to 18 years old within both in and outpatients setting. Overall, the majority of the respondents expressed that counselling time between the patient and pharmacists and the need to provide further training and educational material to parents and young people is an important issue to improve understating in regards medication use.ConclusionThe findings suggest that medication administration problems occur frequently among paediatric patients, and the nature of these problems varies among each age group. Medication training for both parents and young people could be a key factor to help reduce this problem. Future research is needed to investigate and gain insight into personal experiences with medication use and administration from a parent and/or young person’s perspective. This will help to highlight the current problem in the UK and further develop potential interventions to reduce medication administration errors by parents of children aged 0 to 16 years old and by young people up to the age of 18 years.


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