Unexpected benefits of and lessons learned from shifting to virtual focus group discussions in the BEECON trial

OBJECTIVE: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many human subjects research to halt in-person activities and pivot to virtual engagement, including Focus Groups (FGs). We highlight learnings from our experience of hosting virtual FGs from our BEhavioral EConomics for Oral health iNnovation (BEECON) stu...

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Autores principales: Lindau, Helen, Ramos-Gomez, Francisco, Garza, Jeremiah, Finlayson, Tracy, Pareja, Morgan, Liu, Jenny, Gansky, Stuart
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8894553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35246232
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-05950-3
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author Lindau, Helen
Ramos-Gomez, Francisco
Garza, Jeremiah
Finlayson, Tracy
Pareja, Morgan
Liu, Jenny
Gansky, Stuart
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Garza, Jeremiah
Finlayson, Tracy
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Gansky, Stuart
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description OBJECTIVE: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many human subjects research to halt in-person activities and pivot to virtual engagement, including Focus Groups (FGs). We highlight learnings from our experience of hosting virtual FGs from our BEhavioral EConomics for Oral health iNnovation (BEECON) study focusing on oral hygiene behaviors among low-income, predominantly Hispanic families, including practical tips and potential pitfalls to avoid for researchers considering virtual engagement. RESULTS: There can be particular benefits to holding virtual sessions among minority parents of young children—to provide flexibility, comfort, and reduced logistical barriers for participation—while still facilitating friendly conversation with minimal distractions. However, extensive preparation is needed to ensure smooth execution and minimal distractions.
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spelling pubmed-88945532022-03-04 Unexpected benefits of and lessons learned from shifting to virtual focus group discussions in the BEECON trial Lindau, Helen Ramos-Gomez, Francisco Garza, Jeremiah Finlayson, Tracy Pareja, Morgan Liu, Jenny Gansky, Stuart BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many human subjects research to halt in-person activities and pivot to virtual engagement, including Focus Groups (FGs). We highlight learnings from our experience of hosting virtual FGs from our BEhavioral EConomics for Oral health iNnovation (BEECON) study focusing on oral hygiene behaviors among low-income, predominantly Hispanic families, including practical tips and potential pitfalls to avoid for researchers considering virtual engagement. RESULTS: There can be particular benefits to holding virtual sessions among minority parents of young children—to provide flexibility, comfort, and reduced logistical barriers for participation—while still facilitating friendly conversation with minimal distractions. However, extensive preparation is needed to ensure smooth execution and minimal distractions. BioMed Central 2022-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8894553/ /pubmed/35246232 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-05950-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Finlayson, Tracy
Pareja, Morgan
Liu, Jenny
Gansky, Stuart
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8894553/
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