Doody Owen, Slevin Eamonn, Taggart Laurence
Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Limerick, Ireland.
Br J Nurs. 2013;22(5):266-9. doi: 10.12968/bjon.2013.22.5.266.
The use of focus group interviews as a means of qualitative data collection has gained popularity in health service research in recent years. Despite their popularity, analysing qualitative data-particularly focus-group interviews-poses a challenge to most researchers. This article follows the authors' previous articles on; focus group theory, and the preparation and conduct of focus group interviews. Despite the publications on conducting focus groups, little information exists regarding the analysis of data gathered in such groups in health services. The present paper focuses on the concepts and application of data analysis and the use of analysis frameworks. The article aims to assist researchers and provide practical steps for the analysis of focus-group data. Thus, the authors provide a framework for analysing focus group data through identifying data analysis techniques suited for the study of these data.
近年来，焦点小组访谈作为一种定性数据收集方法在卫生服务研究中越来越受欢迎。尽管其很受欢迎，但分析定性数据，尤其是焦点小组访谈数据，对大多数研究人员来说是一项挑战。本文延续了作者之前关于焦点小组理论、焦点小组访谈的准备和实施的文章。尽管有关于进行焦点小组访谈的出版物，但关于卫生服务中此类小组收集的数据的分析信息却很少。本文重点关注数据分析的概念和应用以及分析框架的使用。本文旨在帮助研究人员，并为焦点小组数据的分析提供实际步骤。因此，作者通过识别适合研究这些数据的数据分析技术，提供了一个分析焦点小组数据的框架。
