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  • Focus group in community mental health research : need for adaption
    Zupančič, Vesna, 1973- ; Pahor, Majda ; Kogovšek, Tina
    The article presents an analysis of the use of focus groups in researching community mental health users, starting with the reasons for using them, their implementation in mental health service ... users' research, and the adaptations of focus group use when researching the experiences of users. Based on personal research experience and a review of scientific publications in the Google Scholar, Web of Science, ProQuest, EBSCOhost, and Scopus databases, 20 articles published between 2010 and 2016 were selected for targeted content analysis. A checklist for reporting on the use of focus groups with community mental health service users, aiming to improve the comparability, verifiability and validity was developed. Adaptations of the implementation of focus groups in relation to participants' characteristics were suggested. Focus groups are not only useful as a scientific research technique, but also for ensuring service users' participation in decision-making in community mental health and evaluating the quality of the mental health system and services.
    Source: Community mental health journal. - ISSN 0010-3853 (Vol. 55, no. 1, 2019, str. 168-179)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2019
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 35572061