Technology-enhanced focus groups as a component of instrument development

The Use of Focus Groups in Improving the Survey Instrument The use of focus groups in improving the survey instrument

The increasing need for improving survey research is driven by commercial pressures facing the market research industry. Particular challenges are non-response and response bias associated with survey instruments. We suggest how focus groups can assist in meeting this challenge. We explain how focus groups can assist in refining segmentation criteria, eliciting emotional purchasing motives and ...

Focus Groups as Qualitative Research

Instrument technology moves into process development laboratories

Compliance is required at all stages of drug development including process development (PD) laboratories, clinical trials, pilot plants and large-scale manufacturing. If a drug company uses different instruments—for example, pH sensors—at each stage, it has to keep records on each one, and then integrate new sensors into the next stage of the process. Today, modern instruments have built-in tec...

Development and Validation of Successful Aging Instrument

Objectives: Successful aging is an interdisciplinary concept. Despite the great body of literature on successful aging, few studies have focused on its subjective and multidimensional measurements. Thus, the present study aimed to develop an instrument to measure self-perceived successful aging. Methods: We used a mixed method approach. The successful aging dimensions were explored through an ...

Aligning Technology with the Organisation Using Focus and User Groups

As an IT Manager of nine years in a small healthcare organisation, which has transitioned from a minimal base of IT to fully fledged systems in place, I have discovered two structures which have helped enormously in this transition. These structures are firstly, the focus group, which looks at the IT requirements of the business, and secondly the user group, or a group of super users, which hel...