The unfocused focus group: Benefit or bane?

Qualitative Report

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1380-1388

  Franz, Nancy K ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Facilitation; Focus groups; Group process; Unfocus

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052677802     PISSN: 10520147     EISSN: 21603715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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