The use of focus groups as a tool to evaluation of a health educacional program

Authors

  • Cássia Baldini Soares Universidade de São Paulo; Escola de Enfermagem; Departamento de Enfermagem em Saúde Coletiva
  • Diva Reale Universidade de São Paulo; Faculdade de Medicina; Instituto de Psiquiatria
  • Cristina Maria Brites Pontifícia Universidade Católica; Departamento de Serviço Social

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0080-62342000000300014

Keywords:

Program evaluation, Educational measurement, Training

Abstract

The objective of this study was to identify the possibilities and limitations of the focal group as a tool to evaluation through a case study of a health educational training process. Among the conclusions we emphasize: the maintenance of the same group turns possible to compare results of the groups accomplished before and after the training; the focal group was adequate to reveal the nature of the training deficiencies since it had permitted to analyze the ,complexity inherent to both the drug field and the training objectives that seek for cultural and affective changes and not only for cognitive changes.

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Published

2000-09-01

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 3 (2000)

Section

Original Articles

License

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Soares, C. B., Reale, D., & Brites, C. M. (2000). The use of focus groups as a tool to evaluation of a health educacional program. Revista Da Escola De Enfermagem Da USP, 34(3), 317-322. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0080-62342000000300014