Getting the Focus and the Group: Enhancing Analytical Rigor in Focus Group Research

By P. Kidd, M. Parshall. Qualitative Health Research, 2000

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Subfields: Education, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Issues in the Analysis of Focus Groups: Generalisability, Quantifiability, Treatment of Context and Quotations (2010, background): “2 There are several articles discussing the issue of analysis (for example Carey, 1995; Carey & Smith, 1994; Catteral & Maclaran, 1997; Duggleby, 2005; Kidd & Parshall, 2000; Kitzinger, 2004; Rabiee, 2004; Smithson, 2000; Stockdale, 2002; Vicsek, 2007; Wilkinson, 2006).”
• Comparing focus groups and individual interviews: findings from a randomized study (2017, background): “…not be gathered from a single respondent (Agar & MacDonald, 1995; Albrecht, Johnson, & Walther, 1993; Greenbaum, 2003; Kaplowitz & Hoehn, 2001; Kidd & Parshall, 2000) and generate a wider range of views and ideas than could be captured through individual methods (Kidd & Parshall, 2000;…”
• Junior Tennis Players’ Preferences for Parental Behaviors (2010, background): “Focus groups are useful because they allow participants to share experiences and opinions and provide researchers with an opportunity to examine the perspectives of different individuals within the group ( Kidd & Parshall, 2000 ).”
• Meanings of play among children (2013, methodology): “This grouping process was used to ensure that consecutive and non-consecutive sections of data, consisting of responses from several speakers, could be coded together (Kidd and Parshall, 2000).”
• Focus Group Interviews in Child, Youth, and Parent Research: An Integrative Literature Review (2019, methodology): “Group interactions and processes and the way how opinions might have changed during and through the discussion should Adler et al. 9 be assessed, discussed, and analyzed (Drahota & Dewey, 2008; Kidd & Parshall, 2000; Kitzinger, 1994; Massey, 2011; Rothwell, 2010; Twinn, 2000).”