Focus Groups - Methods
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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Barriers to asthma management among urban families: caregiver and child perspectives.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases of childhood. Those particularly affected are young, poor, African American children. Moreover, rates of emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and mortality are substantially ... Read more...

Assessing the need for communication training for specialists in poison information.

29 Jun 2009 INTRODUCTION: Effective communication has been shown to be essential to physician-patient communication and may be even more critical for poison control center (PCC) calls because of the absence of visual cues, the need for quick and accurate ... Read more...

Designing a workplace return-to-work program for occupational low back pain: an intervention mapping approach.

7 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: Despite over 2 decades of research, the ability to prevent work-related low back pain (LBP) and disability remains elusive. Recent research suggests that interventions that are focused at the workplace and incorporate the principals of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Focus Groups - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Barriers to asthma management among urban families: caregiver and child perspectives. 30 Aug 2009
• Assessing the need for communication training for specialists in poison information. 29 Jun 2009
• Designing a workplace return-to-work program for occupational low back pain: an intervention mapping approach. 7 Jun 2009
• Caregiving and chronic care: the guided care program for families and friends. 4 Apr 2009
• Severe weather, band practice, coal trucks, and other real-world experiences in conducting focus group research in central Appalachia. 14 Mar 2009
• Community leaders' perceptions of Hispanic, single, low-income mothers' needs, concerns, social support, and interactions with health care services. 27 Feb 2009
• The phenomenological focus group: an oxymoron? 27 Feb 2009
• Keeping In Touch Everyday (KITE) project: developing assistive technologies with people with dementia and their carers to promote independence. 3 Feb 2009
• Spotlight on focus groups. 30 Jan 2009
• Development and evaluation of an instrument to measure parental satisfaction with quality of care in neonatal follow-up. 30 Jan 2009
• Use of technology in children's dietary assessment. 30 Jan 2009
• Exploring issues influencing the use of the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool by nurses in two Australian hospitals. 17 Jan 2009
• Use of focus groups in multi-site, multi-ethnic research projects for women's health: a Study of Women Across the Nation (swan) example. 30 Dec 2008
• An exploration of attitudes among black Americans towards psychiatric genetic research. 30 Dec 2008
• The effect of group music therapy on quality of life for participants living with a severe and enduring mental illness. 30 Dec 2008
• The effect of single-session psychoeducational music therapy on verbalizations and perceptions in psychiatric patients. 30 Dec 2008
• Court reporters: a viable solution for the challenges of focus group data collection? 30 Dec 2008
• SISTA South Africa: the adaptation of an efficacious HIV prevention trial conducted with African-American women for isiXhosa-speaking South African women. 29 Nov 2008
• Psychosocial issues in hepatitis C: a qualitative analysis. 30 Oct 2008
• Intervention, recruitment and evaluation challenges in the Bangladeshi community: experience from a peer lead educational course. 7 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Focus Groups'

Definition: A method of data collection and a qualitative research tool in which a small group of individuals are brought together and allowed to interact in a discussion of their opinions about topics, issues, or questions.

Descriptor UI: D017144

Alternative terms: Focus Groups; Focus Group; Group, Focus; Groups, Focus;

Allowable Qualifiers: methods; standards; utilization;

Tree Number: E05.318.308.420.200; F01.829.316.137; L01.280.520.200; N05.715.360.300.400.350; N06.850.520.308.420.200;

History Note: 93

Technical Notes: a method of data collection & qualitative research