scholarly journals Mobilitási szokások változásai a Covid19-világjárvány idején - Changing mobility behaviour during the Covid19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-33
Author(s):  
Márk Miskolczi ◽  
Béla Bauer ◽  
András Déri ◽  
Tamás Kovács
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Quick Recovery ◽  
Mobility Behaviour ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Tourism Service ◽  
Restrictive Measures

A Covid19-világjárvány jelentős recessziót eredményezett a turizmus szektorban. A korlátozó intézkedések enyhítése mellett a lakosság hozzáállása is nagyban befolyásolja a válságból való a kilábalást, ezért kutatócsoportunk az egyes közlekedési módokkal kapcsolatos társadalmi attitűdök, a világjárvány alatti turisztikai szokások, valamint a járvány enyhülését, megszűnését követő utazási motiváció feltárását tűzte ki célul. A kutatási célok megvalósításához kvalitatív (6 fókuszcsoportos interjú) és kvantitatív adatfelvételi módszereken alapuló, utóbbi esetében a felnőtt magyarországi lakosságra vonatkozóan reprezentatív (n=3025), kutatás készült. A kutatásba bevont alanyok szerint a járvány teljes leküzdéséig legfeljebb a belföldi turizmus iránti kereslet erősödhet, azt követően azonban a nemzetközi turizmus hirtelen fellendülése valószínűsíthető. A kérdőíves, reprezentatív megkérdezés alapján a lakosság körében óvatos, kockázatkerülő magatartás mutatkozik. A válaszadók jelentős része arról számolt be, hogy jövőbeni utazásai során, a Covid19-világjárványt követő időszakban is körültekintőbb lesz a higiéniai szabályok betartásával kapcsolatban. A szigorúbb egészségvédelmi intézkedések iránti erősödő igény tudatában érdemes újragondolni a közlekedési és turisztikai szolgáltatások konstrukcióját (pl. repülőgépek férőhelye, egészségügyi ellenőrzések, szálláshelyek és egyéb szolgáltatók hosszú távú járványügyi védekezése), ami nagyban befolyásolhatja a szektor fellendülését. The Covid19 outbreak has led to a significant recession in the tourism sector. The recovery from the crisis, in addition to the restrictive measures, is also heavily influenced by the attitudes of society. Based on this, our research team aimed to explore changes in social attitudes towards different modes of transport and tourism-related consumption. To achieve this, data collection in two phases: qualitative (6 focus group interviews) and quantitative representative (n=3025) surveys were conducted. Focus group interviews indicated that domestic tourism will be stronger until the Covid19 pandemic is over, but a quick recovery of international tourism is expected afterwards. The survey revealed cautious, risk-averse attitude among the respondents. A significant proportion of subjects reported that they would be more careful about hygiene during travel, even when the pandemic is over. With this mind, transport and tourism services may need to rethink (e.g., empty middle seats on flights, health checks, epidemic prevention by different tourism service providers) to ensure the recovery of the sector.

scholarly journals Voices We Forget—Danish Students Experience of Returning to School Following Parental Bereavement

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Lytje
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Return To School ◽  
Parental Bereavement ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Academic Challenges ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Returning To School

This study explores how Danish students experience returning to school following parental bereavement. Eighteen focus group interviews with 39 participants aged 9 to 17 years were conducted. All participants had experienced the loss of a primary caregiver. Data collection was divided into two phases. In Phase I, 22 participants from four grief groups were interviewed 4 times over the course of a year. During Phase II, confirmatory focus groups were undertaken with the 17 participants. This article explores findings related to the four themes of initial school response, long-term support, challenges within the class, and academic challenges. The study found that (a) students struggle to reconnect with classmates following the return to school and often feel alone, (b) schools fail to have guidelines in place for what they are allowed to do if becoming sad the class, and (c) schools seem to forget their loss as time passes.

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.

scholarly journals Counter-talk as symbolic boundary drawing: Challenging legitimate cultural practices in individual and focus group interviews in the lower regions of social space

2021 ◽  
pp. 003802612110144
Author(s):  
Riie Heikkilä ◽  
Anu Katainen
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Moral Boundaries ◽  
Popular Classes ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Symbolic Boundary

In qualitative interviews, challenges such as deviations from the topic, interruptions, silences or counter-questions are inevitable. It is debatable whether the researcher should try to alleviate them or consider them as important indicators of power relations. In this methodological article, we adopt the latter view and examine the episodes of counter-talk that emerge in qualitative interviews on cultural practices among underprivileged popular classes by drawing on 49 individual and focus group interviews conducted in the highly egalitarian context of Finland. Our main aim is to demonstrate how counter-talk emerging in interview situations could be fruitfully analysed as moral boundary drawing. We identify three types of counter-talk: resisting the situation, resisting the topic, and resisting the interviewer. While the first type unites many of the typical challenges inherent to qualitative interviewing in general (silences, deviations from the topic and so forth), the second one shows that explicit taste distinctions are an important feature of counter-talk, yet the interviewees mostly discuss them as something belonging to the personal sphere. Finally, the third type reveals how the strongest counter-talk and clearest moral boundary stemmed from the interviewees’ attitudes towards the interviewer herself. We argue that counter-talk in general should be given more importance as a key element of the qualitative interview. We demonstrate that all three types of counter-talk are crucial to properly understanding the power relations and moral boundaries present in qualitative interviews and that cultural practices are a particularly good topic to tease them out.

scholarly journals We Want More Than Life-Sustaining Treatment during End-of-Life Care: Focus-Group Interviews

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4415
Author(s):  
Mirinae Kim ◽  
Minju Kim
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Treatment Needs ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Basic Care ◽  
Life Sustaining Treatment ◽  
Group Interviews

We qualitatively investigated end-of-life care needs. Data were collected via focus-group interviews with three groups: young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults. The key question was, “What kind of care would you like to receive at the end of life?” Interview data were transcribed and analyzed using content analysis. End-of-life care needs were classified into six categories: life-sustaining treatment needs, physical care needs, emotional care needs, environmental needs, needs for respect, and needs for preparation for death. Because the Korean culture is family-oriented and talking about death is taboo, Korean patients at the end of their life do not make decisions about life-sustaining treatment or actively prepare for death. Therefore, to provide proper end-of-life care, conversations and shared decision-making among patients and their families are crucial. Further, we must respect patients’ dignity and help them achieve a good death by understanding patients’ basic care preferences. Future research should continue examining end-of-life care needs that reflect the social and cultural context of Korea to inform instrument development.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Study on Employees’ Experiences of a Support model for Systematic Work Environment Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 3551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Therese Hellman ◽  
Fredrik Molin ◽  
Magnus Svartengren
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Work Groups ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Environment Management ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Support Model

Background: The aim is to explore how an organisational work environment support model, the Stamina model, influences employees’ work situations and the development of sustainable work systems. Methods: It was a qualitative study with semi-structured, focus-group interviews, including 45 employees from six work groups. Eighteen focus group interviews were conducted over a period of two years. Data were analysed with constant comparative method. Results: The core category, shifting focus from an individual to an organisational perspective of work, illustrated how communication and increased understanding of one’s work tasks changed over time and contributed to deeper focus on the actual operation. These insights were implemented at different time points among the work groups during the two-year process. Conclusions: Our results indicate that working with the model engages employees in the work environment management, puts emphasis on reflections and discussions about the meaning and purpose of the operations and enables a shared platform for communication. These are important features that need to continue over time in order to create a sustainable work system. The Stamina model, thus seems to have the potential to promote productive and healthy work places.

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