Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patients' Needs? Pharmacy Health Literacy Assessment Tool User's Guide
Appendix 6: Sample Outline for Report of Focus Group Results
- Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patients' Needs? Pharmacy Health Literacy Assessment Tool User's Guide
- Introduction
- Part II: Survey of Pharmacy Staff
- Part III: Pharmacy Patient Focus Groups
- Part IV: Using Assessment Results
- Appendix 1: Conducting a Health Literacy Assessment—Flow Chart
- Appendix 2: Health Literacy Assessment Tour Guide
- Appendix 3: Health Literacy Assessment Survey of Pharmacy Staff
- Appendix 4: Samples Tables and Analyses for Pharmacy Staff Survey
- Appendix 5: Health Literacy Assessment Facilitator's Guide for Patient Focus Groups
- Appendix 6: Sample Outline for Report of Focus Group Results
Focus groups are a form of qualitative research, and results will be reported differently than results of quantitative research, as in the other two sections of this assessment tool. However, you will want to summarize your focus group findings in a written report. Figure 1 presents a sample outline of a written focus group report.
Figure 1: Sample Outline of a Report of Focus Group Results
Methods
- Design
- Overview of focus group research.
- Location/dates of focus groups.
- Personnel involved in focus groups.
- Description of consent process.
- Source of facilitator's guide.
- Topic areas covered by the facilitator's guide:
- Methods of recruitment.
- Criteria and methods for selecting participants.
- Enrollment process and number of participants in each group.
- Summary of demographic information.
- Detailed demographic information presented in a table.
- Summary of methods used for analysis.
Results
- Summary of results, organized by topic under descriptive headings (e.g., "Printed Materials," "Interactions with Pharmacy Staff," "Layout of the Pharmacy").
- Illustrative quotations.
- Participants' suggestions for improvement.
