Doing Focus Groups

By R. Barbour. 2008

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Focus Group Interviews in Child, Youth, and Parent Research: An Integrative Literature Review (2019, methodology): “The participants need to have some experience with the study topic, be within the appropriate age range, or have similar psychosocial characteristics (R. Barbour, 2018; Krueger & Casey, 2009; Rabiee, 2004).”
How Many Focus Groups Are Enough? Building an Evidence Base for Nonprobability Sample Sizes (2017, background): “One commonly cited guideline is that focus group research requires at least two groups for each defining demographic characteristic (Barbour 2007; Carey 1995; Knodel 1993; Krueger and Casey 2015; Morgan 1988; Ulin et al. 2005).”
Resistance and accommodation: factors for the (non-) adoption of machine translation among professional translators (2017, unknown): “However, this paper does not claim to measure the strength of participants’ attitudes, nor to provide generalisable results, as focus groups are not an appropriate method with which to measure phenomena (Barbour, 2007) or to make statistical generalisations (Liamputtong, 2011).”
What Influences Saturation? Estimating Sample Sizes in Focus Group Research (2019, unknown): “A common guideline for focus group research is to conduct at least two focus groups for each demographic stratum in the study (Barbour, 2007; Fern, 2001; Greenbaum, 2000; Krueger & Casey, 2015; Morgan, 1997).”