Focus groups: A method of needs assessment

Tipping, Jane

doi:10.1002/chp.1340180304

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“…Focus groups were held with physicians in six of the seven rural Alberta Health Regions. As Tipping (1998) notes, focus groups can be helpful in determining learning needs either implicitly or explicitly. Unlike interviews, which provide insights from one person; in a focus group, one person's ideas will stimulate other people's conversations.…”

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Mentorship for the physician recruited from abroad to Canada for rural practice

Lockyer¹,

Fidler²,

Gara³

et al. 2010

Medical Teacher

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Background: Mentoring is one way to help physicians new to a country assimilate. Aim: This study examined the feasibility and focus of a mentoring program from the perspective of medical leaders (leaders) and physicians new to Canada ( physicians). Methods: Focus groups with 23 physicians were held in six regional centers. Face-to-face interviews were held with 10 leaders. They were asked to discuss how a mentoring program might be helpful and how a program might be designed and evaluated. Results: Both leaders and physicians recognized that mentorship would support the physician socially, professionally, and emotionally. They told us that mentorship programs should be structured carefully to build trust, allow mentors and mentees some selection, be in geographic proximity where possible, and have transparent rules. While leaders felt that evaluation would be an important part of a mentorship program, the physicians disagreed noting that it would change the nature of the program. Leaders stated that the ultimate evaluation of the program's success would be found in retention numbers. Conclusion: Physicians new to a country need support. Mentorship is a feasible approach to support new comers that may result in more efficient and effective integration, enculturation, and higher levels of retention.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Mentorship for the physician recruited from abroad to Canada for rural practice

Lockyer¹,

Fidler²,

Gara³

et al. 2010

Medical Teacher

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“…Focus group discussions are one of the most useful tools to gather qualitative data and to provide many important indications and suggestions which researchers would tend to otherwise miss, particularly in studies on CPE (Tipping, 1998). Therefore, to enrich and deepen the description of the CPE situation, a focus group discussion was organized among health workers in each of the three target regions.…”

Section: Focus Group Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring Access to Continuing Professional Education among the Health Workers in Ghana: Constructing an Index

Aiga

2006

Soc Indic Res

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“…The main objective of focus group discussion is to acquire knowledge regarding the particular issue. It can be used to collectively assemble and analyse information for many purposes such as the adoption of a particular innovation (Ndah et al, 2011), needs assessment (Tipping, 1998), program evaluation (Packer et al, 1994) etc. For conducting a focus group discussion, a facilitator and assistant to facilitator are needed.…”

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Participatory rural appraisal approaches: an overview and an exemplary application of focus group discussion in climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies

Uddin

Anjuman²

2014

Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. & Tech.

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Different tools and techniques of participatory approaches are the basic way of conducting qualitative research especially in the field of applied social science. Focus Group Discussion (FGD) is one of the main Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) technique often used in combination with others to achieve desired goals. Considering this concept, this paper attempts to review the PRA approach and then application of FGD, in combination with matrix scoring and ranking to identify problems and causes of climate change along with possible mitigation and adaptation strategies. A group of 20 students at post graduate level under the faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany those from different corner of the world was considered as target people of the study. The results concluded that "unpredictable weather events" was ranked as the present outstanding visible climate change problem caused by "human activities". However, it was noted that if alternative renewable energy sources are exploited, this could contribute to solving the present climate change problem. This finding might have the good reference for the policy makers in the same line not only for developing countries but also for developed countries.

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Focus groups: A method of needs assessment

Cited by 35 publications

References 10 publications

Mentorship for the physician recruited from abroad to Canada for rural practice

Mentorship for the physician recruited from abroad to Canada for rural practice

Measuring Access to Continuing Professional Education among the Health Workers in Ghana: Constructing an Index

Participatory rural appraisal approaches: an overview and an exemplary application of focus group discussion in climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies

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