Conducting Focus Groups: Experience from Nursing Research

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Christine Webb
Health Studies, School of Nursing and Community Studies, University of Plymouth
Maggie Doman

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No. 10 (2008): group
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Author Biographies

Christine Webb, Health Studies, School of Nursing and Community Studies, University of Plymouth

Christine Webb is Professor of Health Studies in the School of Nursing and Community Studies at the University of Plymouth, UK, where she supervises postgraduate students and she is an editor of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. She has extensive research experience in nursing, and has carried out or supervised many student projects using focus groups.

Maggie Doman

Maggie Doman is a nurse educator specialising in children’s acute and high dependency care. She is working on her PhD study on high dependency nursing and used focus groups as one of the methods. She is a lecturer in the School of Nursing and Community Studies at the University of Plymouth, UK.