Dear community,
Have you recently conducted focus group discussions online? How was your experience compared to conducting regular (in-person) focus group?
Any advice or tips on how to successfully run the online sessions since the physical/social interaction is going to be limited?
Many thanks in advance!
Dear Dr. Hanadi Traifeh
In my experience, I make these recommendations:
1- Try to keep the disc short so as not to lose others' interest.
2- Try to involve more than one person in the question, by transferring the dialogue in an appropriate manner.
3- Do not commit to capturing the pre-set, as the dialogue may lead you to new points. Interact with them in a smart way.
4- It is good that the time does not exceed an hour and a half.
Regards
عبدالله البريدي Abdullah Al-Beraidi Thanks Prof. Abdullah for your thorough answer. Highly appreciated!
Dear Dr Hanadi,
My research team and I did a successful focus group interview via google meet in January this year. Since we had 8 interviewees, we divided them into two different groups with different set of researchers. There were 4 different sessions, each sessions lasted approximately 2 hours. I think it is very crucial to set up a workable online platform and a finalised schedule to avoid any confusion and miscommunication. You might want to create a whatsapp group also for participants, just in case they went offline.
Dear Dr. Mohd Irwan Syazli Saidin Thanks a lot for sharing your experience and for the helpful advice. Highly appreciated! May I ask about the 2 hours duration of the session? Did you feel it was a bit long for an online session or that was not a concern at all?
Dear Dr Hanadi, yes it was a bit long, but we were running out of time to collect maximum input from each respondents, hence the 2 hours session. All the best with your project.
Dear Dr. Mohd Irwan Syazli Saidin Many thanks for taking the time to respond and answering my follow-up question. . Thanks also for your kid wishes. i wish you too all the best!
Atira Ety
Dear Atira, I don't know how I missed your comment. Sorry about that. Since focus groups are usually run face to face, the pandemic forced researchers to consider the virtual space. For that, literature is still limited on this regard and that's why I thought I could check directly with other researchers here who may share their experiences and suggest some tips on running successful only focus groups.
Hello, please take a look at this research. These statistical coefficients are used for determining the conformity or reliability of experts' evaluations, and the Kendall coefficient with a value greater than or equal to 0.7 was considered as the stopping index for the procedure of the Delphi method.
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