Assignment: Qualitative Research
Instructions: Refer to the Focus-Group Study article to answer the following questions.
A. What was the purpose of the focus group study? Why did the researchers think it was important to conduct this study?
B. How were participants invited to be in the study-how were they selected and recruited to participate?
C. How many focus groups were conducted and how many participants were in each focus group?
D. Who served as the moderators for the focus groups and how did they decide what questions to ask?
E. How was the information from the focus groups recorded?
F. How was the data from the focus groups coded and analyzed?
G. What themes emerged from the data analysis? How were the themes identified by the researchers?
H. What were the main findings of the study?
How would you conduct a focus group to explore the same topic with one of the following populations? a) adolescents; b) adults in a treatment program for substance abuse; c) young adults suffering from depression; d) elementary school children. Other: you decide
What option are you discussing?
I. What would you need to do differently to conduct your focus group?
J. Could you ask the same questions used in the study described in the article? Why or why not? Which questions might you change? Would you add any questions?