Dear Community,
I'd like to develop a quantitative measure on violence exposure in children within a post-war community. In order to find out the most common types of violence prevalent in the community, I'd like to conduct qualitative interviews with adult community members. Since I'm completely new to qualitative research, I'd love your recommendations on established methods to go about this.
Thanks!
Annette
Focus groups are widely recommended for this kind of work because they give you insight into the diversity of views that get expressed. I generally recommended choosing your questions for these groups according to which of three levels meet your needs. First, you might be pursuing discovery, when you don't have any prior ideas about what to measure, so you need to be exploratory. Second, you might be pursuing development, when you have some ideas about what you want to measure, and you need to hear about questions that would match the concepts you have in mind. Third, you might be doing definition, where you want to determine the best wording for the questions you want to ask.
Or, if all you need is a list of types of violence, then studies have repeatedly shown that just having a handful of people give you their answers will do the best job of producing such a list, rather than doing a full-scale research project.
In any event, you have picked a very sensitive topic, so you need to do more than just select the methods. In addition, you need to establish a high level of trust to get people to engage in whatever method you choose.
Analytic induction (sys rev), focus group expert panels.
Hope this helps,
Matt
Dear Annet,
I agree with all the previously mentioned suggestions. However, I would include also interviews and focus groups with children/adolescents (your group of interest) since they would provide you with relevant information on your topic of interest, which might differ from the adult experiences of violence.
best,
kaltrina
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