{"id":7980,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/focus_groups\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:44","slug":"focus_groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/focus_groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organized discussions, held where researchers are seekingviews on specific issues. &nbsp;The groups consider topics introduced by theresearcher and offer their opinions and experiences. &nbsp;A key aspect of suchgroups are the additional insights into the subjects discussed, generated bythe interaction between group members.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"delphi_method\">Delphi method<\/a>, <a href=\"qualitative_research\">Qualitative research<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organized discussions, held where researchers are seekingviews on specific issues. &nbsp;The groups consider topics introduced by theresearcher and offer their opinions and experiences. &nbsp;A key aspect of suchgroups are the additional insights into the subjects discussed, generated bythe interaction between group members. See Delphi method, Qualitative research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}