Using focus groups in general practice research.

Abstract:

:Recent years have seen a growing recognition of the appropriateness of qualitative methods in family practice. This has been paralleled by an upsurge of interest in focus group discussions as a method. Drawing on the experience of using focus groups with general practice teams as one component of a multi-method study this paper explores emergent orthodoxies regarding the use of focus groups and reviews the contribution which this method can make to research in general practice.

journal_name

Fam Pract

journal_title

Family practice

authors

Barbour RS

doi

10.1093/fampra/12.3.328

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-09-01 00:00:00

pages

328-34

issue

3

eissn

0263-2136

issn

1460-2229

journal_volume

12

pub_type

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