Module 29: Standardized Focus Group Instructions

A Module Used in The Measurement Group's Cross-Cutting Evaluation of the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau's Special Projects of National Significance on Innovative Models of HIV/AIDS Care

Purpose

• Standardized specifications for conducting focus groups.
• Suggested format for reporting focus group results.
• Suggested questions for focus groups.
• Suggested quantitative questions for focus groups.

Content Domain - Standard grid for eliciting focus group free-responses, demographic items to code focus group participants, facilitator form to code reason for focus group and major dynamics, standardized methods for ranking alternatives.

Operational Data Items - Selected by sites using guidelines for content domains.

Citation - Huba, G. J., Melchior, L. A., Staff of The Measurement Group, and HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee (1996). Module 29: Standardized Focus Group Instructions. Available: www.TheMeasurementGroup.com. Culver City, California: The Measurement Group.

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