Focus group

IDevice Icon Focus Group

Focus groups are a way of getting a group of young people to share their ideas together and to help them build on each others ideas.

Please refer to the suggestions offered in Guidelines for Consultation for more information.

Materials Needed:

  • Paper with questions to guide each groups' discussion
  • Pencil and paper to record significant discussion points

Instructions:

  • It might be better to have single sex groups i.e. all girls together or all boys together.
  • Decide what key questions you want to ask before hand.
  • Ask the questions and let the group talk about them. You can use general statements below to get the discussion started. Or you could make up your own questions.
    • We know all we need to know about HIV/Aids, or,
    • We would like a different sort of HIV/AIDS education in our school
  • Decide how you will record the answers. Will you tape record them or take notes?
  • If you are taking notes ask the group if your notes are correct by checking the main points with them.

We have suggested some more questions which you can use in this activity in the section 'Tool 1: Finding out Young People’s Sources of Knowledge '.

 

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