Social Cognitive Theory, along with other theoretical constructs, guided focus group questions and analysis.
Zahid helped develop focus group questions, worked with the team to collect and analyze the data in the field, and explored new risk factors, such as gender differences.
Participants' responses to focus group questions (N=5168 thought units) reveal beliefs about severity, susceptibility, and efficacy pertaining to breast cancer, nutrition, activity, environment, and the role of government and industry.
This paper highlights key themes which emerged from schoolgirls' responses to focus group questions regarding perceptions of Information Communication Technology (ICT) subjects in the Queensland senior secondary curriculum, primarily, Information Processing Technology (IPT) and Information Technology Systems ITSS).
Prior to fieldwork, bilingual Tanzanian researchers on the research team translated interview and focus group questions from English to Kiswahili.
Focus group questions were modified, where necessary, based on data from key informant interviews and were piloted prior to the community health assessment with local participants.
We then pre-tested and refined the survey and focus group questions with local pastoralists in an iterative process until the research team was satisfied that the questions conveyed the intended meaning.
The focus group questions were semi-structured and broad.
Table 1 provides the key focus group questions.
See Additional file 2: Focus group questions for this vignette as well as the definitions and the full list of focus group questions.
