Scholar-Practitioner Project Assignment: The Focus Group Protocol

a 4- to 6-page paper outlining a focus group protocol:

• Describe a subgroup from your community (include relevant demographics such as gender, socioeconomic status, age).
• Restate the public health problem in the community health profile you created in Week 5.
• Create six questions for the focus group related to the identified public health problem (e.g., contributing factors, potential solutions, assets available to solve the problem).
• Describe methods you would use for recruiting participants and collecting and managing the data. Explain why these methods would be effective.
• Create a brief (two-paragraph) consent form that summarizes the reason for the focus group, procedures to be followed, participants’ rights, and procedures for maintaining confidentiality

 
References
Jorgensen, S., Thorlby, R., Weinick, R. M., & Ayanian, J. Z. (2010). Responses of Massachusetts hospitals to a state mandate to collect race, ethnicity and language data from patients: a qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research, 10(35), 352–360.
Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases.
Nguyen, T.-U. N., Tran, J. H., Kagawa-Singer, M., & Foo, M. (2011). A qualitative assessment of community-based breast health navigation services for Southeast Asian women in Southern California: Recommendations for developing a navigator training curriculum. American Journal of Public Health, 101(1), 87–93.
Note: Retrieved from Walden Library databases.
Tomasik, T., Windak, A., Domagala, A., Dubas, K., Sumskas, L., & Rosinski, J. (2011). An evaluation of family physicians’ educational needs and experiences in health promotion and disease prevention in Poland and Lithuania: A qualitative study. BMC Family Practice, 12(13). Retrieved from http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/12/13 
University of Kansas. (2012). The Community Tool Box: Assessing community needs and resources.
Section 6, “Conducting Focus Groups.” Available at http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/sub_section_main_1018.aspx
University of Kansas. (2012). The Community Tool Box: Assessing community needs and resources.
Section 12, “Conducting Interviews.” Available at http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/section_1047.aspx
World Health Organization. (2012). Informed consent form templates. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/rpc/research_ethics/informed_consent/en/