scholarly journals Using Symbols and Shapes for Analysis in Small Focus Group Research

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.

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

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
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.

scholarly journals Analysing the ways of participating in interview settings: young people’s identity performances and social class in focus groups

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 649-666
Author(s):  
Anu Katainen ◽  
Riie Heikkilä
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Group Method ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Deprived Neighbourhoods ◽  
Situated Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Setting ◽  
Focus Group Method

Critical discussions on the focus group method have highlighted the importance of considering the forms of interaction generated in groups. In this empirical paper we argue that these forms of interaction are intimately linked to the ways participants interpret the study setting, and these interpretations are likely to differ significantly depending on participants’ social backgrounds. In the light of our data consisting of 18 focus groups with 15-year-old school pupils from both affluent and deprived neighbourhoods of Helsinki discussing film clips about young people drinking alcohol, we ask what kinds of modes of participation are mobilised in focus group discussions in order to mark the social position of participants. We further analyse these modes in relation to situated identity performances, arguing that contextual factors of the study setting become especially important to consider when researching vulnerable groups and heterogeneous populations. The analysis yields three modes of participation: these are active/engaged, resistant/passive and dominant/transformative. We argue that these modes can be viewed as actively taken positions that reveal what kinds of identities and competences participants are able and willing to mobilise in the study setting, and that recognising these modes is important in all interview settings.

scholarly journals Management Guidelines For Universal Quality Challenges Across The Focus Group Research Process

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Busani Dube ◽  
Mornay Roberts-Lombard ◽  
Estelle Van Tonder
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Group Process ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Group Method ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Management Guidelines ◽  
Focus Group Research ◽  
Group Research

The general misuse of the focus group method may have quality implications for decision-making processes of organisations across the industry spectrum and for further research. To assist in addressing the problem, this study sought to uncover the challenges that impede the quality of the focus group research process and develop a set of management guidelines for redress by stakeholder organisations. The population of interest for the study consisted of all South African organisations that supply or use marketing research information generated through the use of focus groups. The empirical part of the research study comprised of both a qualitative and a quantitative phase. A CATI approach was used for data collection and the research method employed for the study was a questionnaire survey. An ordinal, 5-point Likert scale was used to measure the responses in the study. The Pearson chi-square test was also employed to compare the research quality perceptions of research suppliers and users within the focus group process. The findings revealed numerous instances of similarities between research suppliers and users regarding their views on focus group research and the quality challenges thereof. Following the research findings, a number of management guidelines were developed that research practitioners could employ to improve the standard of focus group research in South Africa.

scholarly journals What Influences Saturation? Estimating Sample Sizes in Focus Group Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (10) ◽  
pp. 1483-1496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique M. Hennink ◽  
Bonnie N. Kaiser ◽  
Mary Beth Weber
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Degree Of Saturation ◽  
Sample Sizes ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Focus Group Research ◽  
Group Research ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Focus Group Data ◽  
Group Stratification

Saturation is commonly used to determine sample sizes in qualitative research, yet there is little guidance on what influences saturation. We aimed to assess saturation and identify parameters to estimate sample sizes for focus group studies in advance of data collection. We used two approaches to assess saturation in data from 10 focus group discussions. Four focus groups were sufficient to identify a range of new issues (code saturation), but more groups were needed to fully understand these issues (meaning saturation). Group stratification influenced meaning saturation, whereby one focus group per stratum was needed to identify issues; two groups per stratum provided a more comprehensive understanding of issues, but more groups per stratum provided little additional benefit. We identify six parameters influencing saturation in focus group data: study purpose, type of codes, group stratification, number of groups per stratum, and type and degree of saturation.

scholarly journals Opinions as Colors: A Visual Analysis Technique for Modest Focus Group Transcripts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oladokun Omojola ◽  
Oscar Odiboh ◽  
Lanre Amodu
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Visual Perspective ◽  
Focus Group Research ◽  
Group Research ◽  
Analysis Technique

A major concern in focus group research is how transcripts are analyzed. One way of resolving the issues involved is the use of images, in the place of words or numbers, to capture discussion outcomes. This work upgrades the visual perspective and uses colors to represent discussants’ opinions about leadership while the strength of those opinions is illustrated by some levels of transparency of those same colors. This model simplifies the expertise needed by enabling speedy determination of discussants’ submissions even as the transparencies, in the form of shades or tints, reveal the gravity of those submissions.

Cultures of Cosmopolitanism

2002 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronislaw Szerszynski ◽  
John Urry
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Focus Group Research ◽  
Group Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Media Research ◽  
The Uk

This paper is concerned with whether a culture of cosmopolitanism is currently emerging out of massively wide-ranging global processes. The authors develop certain theoretical components of such a culture they consider ongoing research concerned with belongingness to different geographical entities including the world as a whole, and they present their own empirical research findings. From their media research they show that there is something that could be called a banal globalism. From focus group research they show that there is a wide awareness of the global but they this is combined in complex ways with notions of the local and grounded and from media interviews they demonstrate that there is a reflexive awareness of a cultures of the cosmopolitan. On the basis of their data from the UK, they conclude that a publicly screened cosmopolitan culture is emergent and likely to orehestrate much of social and political life in future decades.

scholarly journals Limits of professional competency in nurses working in Nicu

Open Medicine ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 410-415
Author(s):  
Natalija Skorobogatova ◽  
Nida Žemaitienė ◽  
Kastytis Šmigelskas ◽  
Rasa Tamelienė ◽  
Eglė Markūnienė ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Group Method ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Focus Group Method

AbstractOur study aimed to find out the views of nurses working in neonatal intensive care units about the limits of professional competencies and to identify situations where the limits are crossed.MethodsThe research employed the focus group method. For this research we had three focus groups with nurses working in neonatal intensive care units. The results of the study were analysed using the thematic analysis described in Braun and Clarke.Results and conclusionsBased on our research findings, it can be stated that the limits of professional competence of nursing staff working in neonatal intensive care units are defined and clear, but nurses often perform actions exceeding their competencies. This is usually done on the initiative of the nurses themselves, in cases of the deterioration of the state of the newborn, or when doctors delegate their functions to them. Confidence expressed by doctors leads to conflicting feelings of concern and, at the same time, pride in themselves.

scholarly journals Focus groups and methodological rigour outside the minority world: making the method work to its strengths in Tanzania

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilde Jakobsen
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Group Method ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Focus Group Method

This article examines some methodological issues that arise when conducting focus group discussions in the majority world (developing countries), and describes one way of addressing them. While the method is widely used in the majority world, the methodological literature on how to moderate focus groups builds on accumulated experiences of how conversations work in the minority world (developed countries). This article suggests a way to apply the method more rigorously in a majority-world context. It draws on a trial-and-error innovation process spanning 40 discussions in Tanzania. Ensuring quality in data generation required thorough attention to issues of alterity, positionality and power. These issues are common challenges to methodological rigour when researching across difference in the majority world. But this article contends that if used correctly and to its strengths, the focus group method can indeed address and solve these challenges. This also entails creating appropriate conditions for interaction among focus groups participants.

BUILDING THE COMMUNICATIVE CULTURE OF MP’S TEAMS AND THE COMMUNITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 160-170
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Neprytskyi ◽  
Tetyana Neprytska ◽  
Larysa Kyyenko-Romaniuk ◽  
Tetyana Melnychuk ◽  
Volodymyr Zayachkovskyi
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Information Analysis ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Focus Group Research ◽  
Group Research ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
High Level

The article studies the issue of establishment of efficient and sustainable communication between a community and an MP and his/her team. Based on the results of focus group discussions, the authors determine and describe the main problems and gaps that exist in parliamentary education of the general public as well as MPs and their teams and outlines the competences and tools necessary for making this communication efficient and mutually beneficial. The aim of the research is to determine the content and methods of the communicative component of parliamentary education for communities and MP’s teams. The methods used include focus group research (to collect the date regarding the mood, views and attitudes of the public and the MPs and their teams); information analysis and synthesis (to structure the collected data and draw conclusions from it). The study showed a considerable lack on behalf of the public to participate in building the communication, a high level of incompetence on both sides that derives from the lack of systemic parliamentary education and the need to systemically use the same communication channels in order to ensure effective and sustainable interaction of the public with the elected officials. 

scholarly journals Penentuan Kriteria Pengukuran Indikator Kinerja Penyelenggaraan Diklat Berbasis Kompetensi Menggunakan Metode Focus Group Discussion

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Rohmatulloh Rohmatulloh ◽  
Julian Ambassadur Shiddiq
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Group Method ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Implementation Guidelines ◽  
Evaluation Of Training ◽  
Internal Stakeholders ◽  
Focus Group Method

The formulation of performance indicators is good and meaningful must meet the criteria CREAM (clear, relevant, economic, adequate, and monitorable). In practice, it is often found performance indicators can not be applied because it has a variety of interpretations in the criteria of measurement. The problem is discussed using focus group method (FG). The results of the discussion have succeeded in identifying and consensusing the six criteria for measuring the key performance indicators (KPI) for the implementation of competency-based training, ie training needs analysis, syllabus curriculum, modules, training implementation guidelines, evaluation of training, and evaluation of training implementation (satisfaction and learning). The use of the FG method in this study is effective enough to generate many ideas and the participation of internal stakeholders in solving the problem. The success of FG is highly dependent on pre-discussion planning, especially the deepening of the issues studied and the determination of data sources or participants, who understand the issues being discussed.

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