Focus Group Reflection Paper

A. Upon reading the focus groups quotes given at the meeting with Ms. Jones, I was able to distinguish some quotes that dealt with ethnographic factors. In the text it states that ethnographic factors are those that provide specific information about the culture norms, rituals and other aspects of daily life. A norm is a standard of social behavior, which is expected of a group. Rituals is a type of behavior regularly or invariably followed by someone. In this particular program some of the focus group quotes could influence Ms. Jones program’s success. Among the quotes I felt that quote numbers 1,3,4, 5,6, 8, and 9 are quotes that dealt with ethnographic factors. All several of these quotes could help Ms. Jones understand how the individuals feel about diabetes and the initiatives to bring forth the type 2 diabetes health program. The quotes provided are not judgmental but they are descriptive. Individuals view their environment as one that needs to be educated about type 2 diabetes but there have been some problems that hinder the success of other programs and initiatives. These several quotes could be a factor to Ms. Jones program because now

After reviewing Ms. Jones pre/post testing results, I would say that the testing was beneficial to the program. I believe that it was beneficial because the students showed some fair results overall. Although all of the students were not in the diabetes program the test results showed pretty good results for all 20 students that were tested on the same material. Being that the scores were decent it showed that students really did focus on the material being covered in the program and the control group had some type of knowledge about diabetes recognition. The most successful part that I found to be beneficial was the weight loss criteria. There was definitely an improvement in weight loss at the end of the core phase. Overall this test method could be improved statistically by providing a smaller control group to