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A New Era in Focus Group ResearchUse of Focus Groups in Developing Behavioural mHealth Interventions: A Critical Review

A New Era in Focus Group Research: Use of Focus Groups in Developing Behavioural mHealth... [The benefit of incorporating and embedding qualitative work in the development of complex interventions is now widely accepted. The MRC framework, for example, states that focus groups can be useful: in ‘defining the components of the intervention’ and in ‘defining the trial and intervention design’. In the case of ‘m-health’ interventions (behavioural interventions that incorporate the use of mobile technologies), this can include formative testing, pre-testing and piloting, through to implementation and evaluation. Despite this recognition, we question whether focus groups and data are being used to full advantage. Working chronologically through the stages of intervention development, we draw on relevant literature and our own experience, our main case study is the PROPELS trial (an mhealth project for people with pre-diabetes). We discuss how we used focus groups to develop an m-health support and maintenance arm, incorporating the use of tailored text messages and telephone support.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A New Era in Focus Group ResearchUse of Focus Groups in Developing Behavioural mHealth Interventions: A Critical Review

Editors: Barbour, Rosaline S.; Morgan, David L.
Eborall, Helen; Morton, Katie
Springer Journals — Jun 24, 2017
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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978-1-137-58613-1
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109 –127
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-58614-8_6
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Abstract

[The benefit of incorporating and embedding qualitative work in the development of complex interventions is now widely accepted. The MRC framework, for example, states that focus groups can be useful: in ‘defining the components of the intervention’ and in ‘defining the trial and intervention design’. In the case of ‘m-health’ interventions (behavioural interventions that incorporate the use of mobile technologies), this can include formative testing, pre-testing and piloting, through to implementation and evaluation. Despite this recognition, we question whether focus groups and data are being used to full advantage. Working chronologically through the stages of intervention development, we draw on relevant literature and our own experience, our main case study is the PROPELS trial (an mhealth project for people with pre-diabetes). We discuss how we used focus groups to develop an m-health support and maintenance arm, incorporating the use of tailored text messages and telephone support.]

Published: Jun 24, 2017

Keywords: Complex interventions; Mixed methods; Trials

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