Heary Caroline M, Hennessy Eilis
University College Dublin, Ireland.
J Pediatr Psychol. 2002 Jan-Feb;27(1):47-57. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/27.1.47.
To review and synethize the research material on focus groups with children and adolescents and to provide guidelines for future development.
Psychlit, Medline, and Cinahl electronic databases, as well as the reference lists of those articles consulted, were reviewed for information regarding focus groups with participants under the age of 18 years. Both empirical and methodological articles were part of this review.
We review the utility of focus groups for exploratory research, program evaluation, program development, and questionnaire construction or adaptation. Based on previous research, we provide guidelines for focus groups with children and adolescents and outline suggestions for future development.
There is evidence to suggest that focus groups are a valuable means of eliciting children's views on health-related matters, given an appropriate research question. However, empirical research is required in order to investigate systematically the effect of different processes and variables on the final outcome of focus group interviews.
回顾并综合有关儿童和青少年焦点小组的研究资料，并为未来发展提供指导方针。
对Psychlit、Medline和Cinahl电子数据库以及所查阅文章的参考文献列表进行检索，以获取有关18岁以下参与者焦点小组的信息。实证研究文章和方法学文章均纳入本综述。
我们回顾了焦点小组在探索性研究、项目评估、项目开发以及问卷构建或改编方面的效用。基于先前的研究，我们为儿童和青少年焦点小组提供指导方针，并概述未来发展的建议。
有证据表明，在有适当研究问题的情况下，焦点小组是获取儿童对健康相关问题看法的一种有价值的方式。然而，需要进行实证研究，以便系统地调查不同过程和变量对焦点小组访谈最终结果的影响。
