Conducting Focus Groups: Coronary Heart Disease Patti Maisner Kaplan University Focus groups are used to brainstorm a community issue. Groups should be kept to seven to nine people, so that many focus events can take place, choosing different participants each time, but with the same topic. The participants should be from the community thus representing the larger population of that community. Issues are addressed either in the form of questions or topics, responses are recorded and analyzed, with incentives given to those who engage in the focus event (Watson, 2011). My community health promotion program will circumference Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) and my focus group will be based on a combination of Nominal …show more content…
A video recorder can be used so that responses and body language can be tallied and quantified. Response cards with ideas or votes can also be administered to each focus group. When the data is processed a rough draft of the program can be developed and discussed again in a focus group, each time using members from the community giving their opinion and vote so that they get what they want which will increase the efficacy of the program. For example, my local hospital has a hearth healthy group, who walk every morning at the local mall. The mall opens at 7am, and the stores at 10am, giving the walkers three hours to walk the oval makeshift track for free. It could’ve been found, that in a survey, that seniors would not join a gym, but would meet at the mall for the morning walks. Information like this can only come from the focus group participants, thus becoming future community-based research. In conclusion, focus groups utilize members and key stakeholders of the community, that they themselves, might have CHD. Therefore, it is best to use them as the source for the basis of the community health program. By having prewritten questions, you can keep the group focused on the hypotheses which will be analyzed for relevant content and priority in terms of the issues at hand and their solutions that meet the needs and wants of the
As a student, practice is crucial to learn group therapy techniques. In order to achieve these practices, I attended 2 support groups of the same topic. Observation and attendance constructs an idea of how group therapy works. Attending this group was important because of the profoundness of its meaning and experiences I have witnessed.
The first, focus groups, interviews conducted with 8 to 10 people with a trained moderator following an interview guide, a common useful approach for acquiring health care information. Also, useful in examining a wide range of sensitive health care issues. Second, probability sampling, units selected by chance, the sample’s reliability, and does not require detailed information about the population surveyed. The third option, mail surveys, inexpensive way to contact individuals over a large geographical area, provide anonymity to the respondent, and eliminate interviewer bias.
Activities that we would engage in for this partnership grant to achieve our overall objective include developing surveys and facilitating focus
During the rehab process, patients receive much more than therapy and counselling. They learn a lot about addiction and what it takes to stay on the path of recovery. In many cases, they also learn the value of having one or more support groups. For many years now, counselors have placed a great deal of value on promoting the idea of "one addict helping another addict." In fact, who would know more about the recovery process than someone who has successfully lived it?
208). This in turn will allow me to identify populations of interest and those which are at risk for health issues. In addition, providing education to my patients and the community about available resources, will help prevent illnesses, and promote wellness. Lastly, by using the 17 public health interventions, I will be able to use a variety of interventions to help improve the quality of care I provide to my patients (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014, pp.
...t for offering human services and address them through an outcome approach, feasibility analysis, and advocacy in the community.
Then, K.L., Rankin, J.A. & Ali, E. (2014). Focus group research: What is it and how can it be used? Canadian Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 24(1), 16–22.
George M, Freedman TG, Norfleet AL, Feldman HI, Apter AJ. Qualitative research-enhanced understanding of patients' beliefs: results of focus groups with low-income, urban, African American adults with asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2003 May;111(5):967-73.
...practices and ethical conduct toward students, professional colleagues, and community members. I could tell they maintained the dignity of their profession, demonstrated integrity, and exemplified honesty.
The term methodology refers to the way in which we approach problems and try to find answers and in social science, it applies to how research is conducted, our assumptions, interest and purposes shape which methodology we choose (Steven, 2016:3).Qualitative research is understanding people from their own perspectives, their viewpoint and experiencing reality as they experience it. Qualitative research has many approaches or methods of collecting data and one of them is an interview which I have chosen to explain further based on it as a method of collecting data. The interview is the most common method of data gathering used in qualitative research and it is used in deferent ways by every main theoretical and methodological approach.
113 Older Adults participated in focus groups where they discussed their use of and attitudes about technology in their home, work, and health care environments. The older adult’s reported significantly more positive attitudes than negative attitudes. Positive attitude were defined as “likes” and negative attitudes were defined as “dislikes”. Positive attitudes were due to how well technology “supported activities, enhanced convenience, and contained useful features.” Negative attitudes were due to what degree the technology “created inconveniences, unhelpful features, and security and reliability concerns.” The results support three notions. First, older adults view the benefits of technology are greater than the costs. Second, they do not support older adult stereotypes relating to their inability to use and fear of technology. Third, in models of technology acceptance, they outline the vital roles of “use and ease of use”. The “digital divide” is the contrast between those who accept new technology and those who do not. According to the article, any product or service that is digital or electronic is known as technology. In order to predict the usage of technology we must understand the factors that affect the acceptance of technology in older adults. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) defined
The collection of this data could be gathered in a variety of ways, such as conducting interviews, having focus groups and through clinical case studies, but I feel the best data collecting for this is through observation. The
Methods, which provide this type of data, include; interviews, observations as well as focus groups. The advantages of using Qualitative methods such as those listed previously is that they can produce “an extensive base of knowledge” to complex areas of research (Ulin et el. 2005, p.9) such as children’s behavior in school. Another advantage is it will often take place in a natural environment, thus making participants more likely to be more truthful and ther...
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Therefore, one focus group used English as the main language to discuss and the rest five focus groups talked in Chinese. All the record discussions were translated into English in transcribe process.