Innovative Approaches

Conducting a Focus Group

You can learn about the experiences of those you serve. A guide for Conducting Focus Groups describes how health care organizations can recreate the focus group discussions used in the coalition's research project, "Living and Healing During Life-Threatening Illness." Sylvia McSkimming, RN, PhD, the project's principal investigator, says such focus groups can be therapeutic events for participants and a "wake-up call" for health care organizations.

Conducting a Focus Group (pdf) - Sroll to page 10 (appendix) for information on focus groups. If you do not have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer, please click here  and download the software now.