Uppsala University, Department of Pharmacy, Box 580, Uppsala S-751 23, Sweden.
Qual Health Res. 2010 May;20(5):607-16. doi: 10.1177/1049732309354097. Epub 2009 Nov 19.
Group interaction is put forward as the principal advantage for focus group research, although rarely reported on. The aim of the article is to contribute to the methodological knowledge regarding focus group research by providing an empirical example of the application of the Lehoux, Poland, and Daudelin template suggested for analysis of the interaction in focus groups. The data source was 18 focus groups' performance in Sweden: 12 with older patients and 6 with general practitioners (GPs). GPs found common ground in belonging to the same profession, whereas the older patients, instead of constituting a group in the word's real sense, started just sharing a common focus. We found the template easy to understand and use, except for identifying participants' explicit and implicit purposes for participating. Furthermore, adding an interaction analysis to the content analysis helped us appreciate and clarify the contexts from which these data were created.
群体互动被提出作为焦点小组研究的主要优势，尽管很少有报道。本文的目的是通过提供对 Lehoux、Poland 和 Daudelin 模板在焦点小组互动分析中的应用的实证示例，为焦点小组研究的方法论知识做出贡献。数据来源是在瑞典进行的 18 个焦点小组的表现：12 个与老年患者，6 个与全科医生（GP）。GP 们发现自己同属一个职业群体，而老年患者并没有真正意义上形成一个群体，他们只是开始分享一个共同的关注点。我们发现该模板易于理解和使用，只是在确定参与者参与的明确和隐含目的时有些困难。此外，将互动分析添加到内容分析中，帮助我们理解和澄清了这些数据产生的背景。
