0 a group of people who have been brought together to discuss a particular subject in order to solve a problem or suggest ideas --
1 a group of people brought together to discuss what they think about a particular product, advertisement, or subject, as part of a company's market research: --
2 a group of employees who are brought together to discuss what they think about the organization and management of the company they work for: --
Nevertheless, focus group dynamics could be established through participant interaction.
Moreover, including extra facilities such as a vignette (11) within, for example, a focus group may provide a valuable insight into expressed beliefs.
For each group, calls were repeated until a focus group of 9-12 individuals was formed.
None of the farmers in the focus group discussions used pesticides due to high costs and unavailability.
Therefore, a focus group was set up in an attempt to overcome the problem of the validity in the design of our questionnaire.
The focus group material is also interesting, because service providers' perspectives are rarely compared with those of older people.
During the focus group discussions, some complained that they were not allowed to answer incoming telephone calls, even when their children were not at home.
It was thus not surprising that many of the older women ' jokingly' described their homes as ' prisons' during the focus group discussions.
