Doody Owen, Slevin Eamonn, Taggart Laurence
Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Br J Nurs. 2013;22(1):16-9. doi: 10.12968/bjon.2013.22.1.16.
Focus groups are used by researchers in the social and behavioural sciences to explore phenomena and are accepted as a legitimate qualitative methodology. The primary goal of focus groups is to use interaction data resulting from discussion among participants to increase the depth of the enquiry and reveal aspects of the phenomenon assumed to be otherwise less accessible. This article, the first of three articles on focus groups, examines the nature of focus groups, issues regarding planning focus groups, selecting participants and the size of the groups. This article is aimed at students who are undertaking research modules as part of their academic studies or writing a research proposal as well as at novice researchers who intend to use focus groups as a means of data collection.
焦点小组被社会和行为科学领域的研究人员用于探索各种现象，并被视为一种合理的定性研究方法。焦点小组的主要目标是利用参与者之间讨论产生的互动数据，以加深调查的深度，并揭示那些被认为难以通过其他方式获取的现象的各个方面。本文是关于焦点小组的三篇文章中的第一篇，探讨了焦点小组的性质、焦点小组规划、参与者选择和小组规模等问题。本文的目标读者是正在进行学术研究模块学习或撰写研究提案的学生，以及打算将焦点小组作为数据收集手段的新手研究人员。
