Qualitative Data Collection: Interviews and Focus Groups

2011 ◽  
pp. 39-55 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

scholarly journals Implementation of virtual focus groups for qualitative data collection in a global pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel C. Dos Santos Marques ◽  
Lauren M. Theiss ◽  
Cynthia Y. Johnson ◽  
Elise McLin ◽  
Beth A. Ruf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Virtual Focus Groups ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

Issues in Quality Use of Medicines in two Non-English Speaking Background Communities

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Bolton ◽  
Sekneh Hammoud ◽  
Joanne Leung
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Western Medicine ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Medication Compliance ◽  
Medication Use ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Parallel Iterative ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

Compliance is a policy issue in the quality use of medicine that has attracted much interest; however, there is little research about medication compliance issues in people of non-English speaking backgrounds. This paper describes a qualitative data collection that was used to identify compliance issues, and possible approaches to these issues, in an area of South-Eastern Sydney with a high non-English speaking population. Two parallel, iterative, series of GP and consumer focus groups were held in Arabic and Chinese communities. Later focus groups built on the findings of earlier groups and sought to engage GPs and consumers in identifying issues in compliance, and possible approaches to these issues. The paper compares and contrasts the results from these two communities and suggests that the approach might be used to identify compliance issues in other communities. Communication around appropriate medication use was the key issue common to both communities. The Chinese community was otherwise much more critical of Western medicine than the Arahic community, perhaps because of the strength of traditional medicine in that culture.

scholarly journals Re-Thinking the Boundaries of the Focus Group: A Reflexive Analysis on the Use and Legitimacy of Group Methodologies in Qualitative Research

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 58-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Angela Caretta ◽  
Elena Vacchelli
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Group A ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

This article aims at problematizing the boundaries of what counts as focus group and in so doing it identifies some continuity between focus group and workshop, especially when it comes to arts informed and activity laden focus groups. The workshop [1] is often marginalized as a legitimate method for qualitative data collection outside PAR (Participatory Action Research)-based methodologies. Using examples from our research projects in East Africa and in London we argue that there are areas of overlap between these two methods, yet we tend to use concepts and definitions associated with focus groups because of the lack of visibility of workshops in qualitative research methods academic literature. The article argues that focus groups and workshops present a series of intertwined features resulting in a blending of the two which needs further exploration. In problematizing the boundaries of focus groups and recognizing the increasing usage of art-based and activity-based processes for the production of qualitative data during focus groups, we argue that focus groups and workshop are increasingly converging. We use a specifically feminist epistemology in order to critically unveil the myth around the non-hierarchical nature of consensus and group interaction during focus group discussions and other multi-vocal qualitative methods and contend that more methodological research should be carried out on the workshop as a legitimate qualitative data collection technique situated outside the cycle of action research.

scholarly journals Use of Video Conferencing to Facilitate Focus Groups for Qualitative Data Collection

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
Scott B. Greenspan ◽  
Kelsey L Gordon ◽  
Sara A. Whitcomb ◽  
Alexandra A. Lauterbach
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Video Conferencing ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

scholarly journals Innovative Data Collection Strategies in Qualitative Research

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Onwuegbuzie ◽  
Nancy Leech ◽  
Kathleen Collins
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Collection Strategies ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

This article provides an innovative meta-framework comprising strategies designed to guide qualitative data collection in the 21st century. We present a meta-framework comprising strategies for collecting data from interviews, focus groups, observations, and documents/material culture. We present a template for collecting nonverbal data during interviews and discuss the concept of debriefing the interviewer. We identify types of data that can be collected in focus groups in addition to the actual statements made by the participants and provide templates for categorizing these data. Also, we outline the role that social networking websites can play in focus group interviews. Further, we provide models for observations that include photographs and videos. Finally, we outline ways of accessing and collating documents/material culture that can be used for document analyses.

Qualitative Data Gathering Techniques

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Lochrie ◽  
Ross Curran ◽  
Kevin O'Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Research Techniques ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

As a primary methodology in the Methods Map, qualitative research techniques promote the collection of rich and revelatory data. This chapter presents several qualitative data collection techniques appropriate to business management research, such as interviews, focus groups, ethnographic approaches, observations, and the use of diaries. To the inexperienced researcher, these approaches may initially appear a less challenging methodological option to pursue, however, this chapter serves to highlight the inherent complexities associated with qualitative techniques and offers accessible advice and guidance for researchers new to qualitative research, or those looking to formalise their current understanding.

scholarly journals Fostering the Development of Written Argumentative Competence in ELT from a Critical Literacy Approach

2018 ◽  
pp. 159-184
Author(s):  
Diego Sánchez-Peña ◽  
Claudia Marcela Chapetón
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Competence Development ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Argumentative Competence ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

This article reports the findings of an action research which aimed at describing and analyzing the impact that the implementation of argumentative writing activities through a critical literacy approach may have on 4th semester pre-service teachers’ argumentative competence development. Participants belong to the B.A. program in English and Spanish teaching at Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. The article draws on qualitative data collection techniques such as questionnaires, focus groups, audio recordings of class sessions, and class artifacts. Findings indicate that adopting a critical literacy approach helped pre-service-teachers foster the development of their written argumentative competence. It was revealed that participants grew as argumentative writers as they were able to take a clear position and weigh their claims. Moreover, they were engaged in reflection that fostered awareness of their roles as future ELT educators which in turn empowered them to discover teaching as a tool for transformation.

Transcription as a Key Phase of Data Analysis in Qualitative Research: Experience from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Field Methods ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1525822X2198948
Author(s):  
Adeagbo Oluwafemi ◽  
S. Xulu ◽  
N. Dlamini ◽  
M. Luthuli ◽  
T. Mhlongo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Collection Methods ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

Transforming spoken words into written text in qualitative research is a vital step in familiarizing and immersing oneself in the data. We share a three-step approach of how data transcription facilitated an interpretative act of analysis in a study using qualitative data collection methods on the barriers and facilitators of HIV testing and treatment in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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