Overview of Focus Group Research
Qualitative Health ResearchPublished 1 November 1995
Jo-Ellen Asbury
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Abstract
This overview is intended to be a very general introduction to the use of focus groups as a research tool within the social and behavioral sciences. For more detailed information, readers are encouraged to seek out the primary sources cited here, particularly Krueger and Morgan, as well as their contributions in Qualitative Health Research (this issue).
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