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This 12 page paper provides an overview of the issues related to focus group interviews utilized in qualitative nursing research. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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group interviews are utilized. Qualitative research explores an area, collects data through observations and interviews with people and generates hypotheses. Working in the opposite direction as the quantitative
research, in this method the researcher would first explore the geographic location collecting the data through interviews and observation, and then generate a hypothesis based on the data. "Qualitative
research methods are conducted in naturalistic settings. The qualitative research method should be selected and appropriately used according to the nursing problem and what is known about the nursing
phenomena to be studied" (Park, 2001). The validity of such research can be tested by asking questions such as the importance of the subject, the methods used for collecting
and analyzing data, and point of view of the researcher (Greenhalgh, 1997). "Nursing research is increasingly moving away from quantitative research methods, towards qualitative techniques, to describe and give
meaning to life experiences. Focus group interview is a popular way of collecting data in qualitative research. Quantitative research methods concentrate mainly on issues of cause and effect"
(Martin, 1995, p. 44). However, even though the nursing industry is moving more toward qualitative research methodology, there still exist certain controversial issues pertaining to focus group interview with
regard to access, ethical issues, power and relevance (Benner, 1991; Morse, 1994; Silva et al, 1995). BACKGROUND OF QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY Researchers who choose to use qualitative methods tend to
seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people
bring to them [by using] a holistic perspective which preserves the complexities of human behavior" (Greenhalgh, 1997, p. 740). The researcher, being the prime instrument of data collection, would
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