title: Dilemmas of focus group recruitment and implementation: a pilot perspective.
abstract: In this paper, Isis Lioba Howatson-Jones reviews some of the dilemmas experienced in arranging focus groups, particularly for the novice researcher and draws upon a pilot research project on qualified nurses' learning as illustration. The paper explores ways of overcoming recruitment and method issues during the pilot phase of a study, and presents a number of recommendations for the practice and conduct of focus groups.
authors.affiliation: Canterbury Christ Church University, Broadstairs, Kent, UK.
authors.forename: Isis Lioba
authors.initials: IL
authors.lastname: Howatson-Jones
mesh_terms: D032984:Ethics, Research; D017144:Focus Groups; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom