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Interpretive focus groups: a participatory method for interpreting and extending secondary analysis of qualitative
Michelle Redman-MacLaren1, Jane Mills2, Rachael Tommbe3
1College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia; michelle.maclaren@jcu.edu.au.
Interpretive focus groups enhance qualitative data analysis by enabling participants to co-create new insights. This participatory approach, using storyboarding, improved understanding of women's experiences in Papua New Guinea.
Area of Science:
- Qualitative research methodologies
- Participatory action research
- Health promotion studies
Background:
- Evolving research environments necessitate innovative participatory approaches.
- Secondary analysis of qualitative data presents epistemological and ethical challenges.
- Interpretive focus groups offer a participative method for group data analysis.
Purpose of the Study:
- Facilitate interpretive focus groups with women in Papua New Guinea.
- Extend analysis of existing qualitative data and co-create new primary data.
- Inform transformational grounded theory and health-promoting actions.
Main Methods:
- Two-step approach within a grounded theory study.
- Analysis of existing qualitative data 'chunks' in story circles.
- Utilized visual research method of storyboarding for enhanced analysis.
Main Results:
- New understandings emerged from women's analysis of data 'chunks'.
- Interpretive focus groups encouraged sharing of personal experiences.
- Storyboarding facilitated visual representation and discussion of experiences.
Conclusions:
- Interpretive focus groups enhance trustworthiness in secondary qualitative data analysis.
- Co-analysis and co-generation of data inform grounded theory and action.
- Participatory methods strengthen research findings and their application.
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