Focus Group Research With Children and Youth
Focus Group Research With Children and Youth
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1744-6155.2009.00187.x
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发表时间：
2009-04-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Clark, Lauren
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作者：
Clark, Lauren
Nursing of the University of Colorado Denver was approached by a local recreation district to help them consider ways of using new funds to meet the needs of urban high-risk youth. Program planners asked questions like:“How will we know who our ‘high-risk’youth are in the community?”“What kinds of programs are likely to appeal to high-risk youth and minimize their various health risks?” When considering the different approaches we could use, we finally decided on a series of focus groups. We successfully used focus groups to answer our research questions and provide guidance to program planners about high-risk recreation planning (Clark, Marsh, Davis, Igoe, & Stember, 1996).From that experience and other more recent research using focus groups, I would like to offer suggestions to researchers eager to employ focus groups with children and youth. Many research method books talk about the focus group in social science and health research (see examples, such as Barbour, 2007; Krueger, 1998; Morgan, 1997; Stewart, Shamdasani, & Rook, 2007). This column will address three key areas of focus group research with children and youth: determining if a focus group is appropriate, facilitating a focus group and using a guiding agenda to be effective, and planning for adequate sampling.
