Combining individual interviews and focus groups to enhance data richness.

By Sylvie D. Lambert, Carmen G. Loiselle. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2008

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“It’s Kind of Like Code-Switching”: Black Older Adults’ Experiences with a Voice Assistant for Health Information Seeking (2021, methodology): “those questions [19, 62], providing a more clear picture of the types of questions Black older adults desired to ask and the natural ways they would pose those questions to online devices.”
The use of triangulation in qualitative research. (2014, methodology): “Lambert and Loiselle (2008) explored patterns of cancer informationseeking behavior and initially used both IDI interviews and FGs as a result of some participants’ inability or unwillingness to participate in FGs.”
Parents in youth sport: what happens after the game? (2017, methodology): “Furthermore, individual interviews and focus groups are an inexpensive method for gathering rich, descriptive, cumulative and elaborate data (Lambert & Loiselle, 2008).”
A British university case study of the transitional experiences of student-athletes (2015, background): “To provide further detail and create 12 a holistic representation (cf. Lambert & Loiselle, 2008), focus groups were then conducted 13 with administrators, coaches, and support staff to enable their collective observations of the 14 experiences of student-athletes to be captured.”