"Focus groups can be fun": The use of activity-oriented questions in focus group discussions

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1422-1433

  Colucci, Erminia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Activity; Art based research; Creativity; Focus groups; Interview techniques; Methodology; Qualitative research; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVERSATION; CREATIVITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL VALUE; EXERCISE; FANTASY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; ITALY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH PRIORITY; ROLE PLAYING; STORYTELLING; SUICIDE; TECHNIQUE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 36248993854     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732307308129     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Bartunek, J.M., & Seo, M.G. (2002). Qualitative research can add new meanings to quantitative research. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 23 (2), 237-242.
2. Bennstam, A.L., Strandmark, M., & Diwan, V.K. (2004). Perception of tuberculosis in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Wali ya nkumu in the Mai Ndombe district. Qualitative Health Research, 14, 299-312.
3. Bernard, H.R. (1995). Research methods in anthropology: Qualitative and quantitative approaches (2nd ed.). Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira.
4. Bloor, M., Frankland, J., Thomas, M., & Robson, K. (2001). Focus groups in social research. London: Sage.
5. Brownhill, S., Wilhelm, K., Barclay, L., & Schmied, V. (2005). " Big build": Hidden depression in men. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 39, 921-931.
6. Bulmer, C. (1998). Clinical decisions: Defining meaning through focus groups. Nursing Standard, 12 (20), 34-36.
7. Colucci, E. (in press). On the use of focus groups in cross-cultural research. In P. Liamputtong (Ed.), Doing cross-cultural research: Ethical and methodological perspectives. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer.
8. Colucci, E. (2007a). The cultural meaning of suicide: A comparison between Italian, Indian and Australian students. Doctoral dissertation, The University of Queensland, Department of Psychiatry, Brisbane, Australia.
9. Colucci, E. (2007 b). Focus groups in suicide research: Their value and neglect, particularly in cross-cultural studies. Unpublished manuscript.
10. Colucci, E. (2007 c). The "group" as "focus" of focus groups: Issues of analysis and report of focus groups data. Unpublished manuscript.
11. Darbyshire, P., Macdougall, C., & Schiller, W. (2005). Multiple methods in qualitative research with children: More insight or just more? Qualitative Research, 5, 417-436.
12. Delli Carpini, M.X., & Williams, B. (1994). The method is the message: Focus groups as a method of social, psychological, and political inquiry. Research in Micropolitics, 4, 57-85.
13. Gilbert, P., Gilbert, J., & Sanghera, J. (2004). A focus group exploration of the impact of izzat, shame, subordination and entrapment on mental health and service use in South Asian women living in Derby. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 7 (2), 109-130.
14. Groundwater-Smith, S., & Mockler, N. (2003). Learning to listen: Listening to learn. Sydney, Australia: University of Sydney.
15. Hicks, L.K., Lin, Y., Roberston, D.W., Robinson, D.L., & Woodrow, S.I. (2001). Understanding the clinical dilemmas that shape medical students' ethical development: Questionnaire survey and focus group study. British Medical Journal, 2001 (322), 709-710.
16. Khan, M.M., & Manderson, L. (1992). Focus groups in tropical diseases research. Health Policy and Planning, 7(1),56-66.
17. Kelly, G.A. (1955). A theory of personality. New York: W. W. Norton.
18. Kon, S. (Writer), & Maki, T. (Producer). (2001). Millennium Actress [Studio Madhouse]. Tokyo: Klockworx.
19. Krueger, R.A. (1998). Developing questions for focus groups. In D. L. Morgan, R. A. Krueger, & J. A. King (Eds.), Focus group kit (Vol. 3). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
20. Krueger, R.A., & Casey, M.A. (2000). Focus groups. A practical guide for applied research (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
21. Leichtentritt, R.D. (2004). The meaning that young Israeli adults ascribe to the least undesirable death. Death Studies, 28, 733-759.
22. Madriz, E. (2000). Focus groups in feminist research. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (pp. 835-850). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
23. Matsumi, J., & Marsella, A.J. (1976). Cross-cultural variations in the phenomenological experience of depression. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 7(4), 379-396.
24. Morgan, D.L. (1995). Why things (sometimes) go wrong in focus groups. Qualitative Health Research, 5, 516-523.
25. Morgan, D.M. (1998). The focus group guidebook. In D. L. Morgan, R. A. Krueger & J. A. King (Eds.), Focus group kit (Vol. 1). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
26. Quine, S., Bernard, D., Booth, M., Kang, M., Usherwood, T., Alperstein, G., et al. (2003). Health and access issues among Australian adolescents: A rural-urban comparison. Rural and Remote Health, 245, 1-10.
27. Ryan, G.W., & Bernard, H.R. (2000). Data management and analysis methods. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of qualitative research (2nd ed., pp. 769-802). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
28. Shefer, T., Strebel, A., Wilson, T., Shabalala, N., Simbayi, L., Ratele, K., et al. (2002). The social construction of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in South African communities. Qualitative Health Research, 12, 1373-1390.
29. Wisdom, J.P., & Green, C.A. (2004). " Being in a funk": Teens' efforts to understand their depressive experiences. Qualitative Health Research, 14, 1227-1238.
30. Wolf, D.L. (1997). Family secrets: Transnational struggles among children of Filipino immigrants. Sociological Perspectives, 40 (3), 457-482.