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Use of Web Conferencing Technology for Conducting Online Focus Groups Among Young People With Lived Experience of Suicidal Thoughts: Mixed Methods Research

JMIR mental health, 2019-10, Vol.6 (10), p.e14191-e14191 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Jin Han, Michelle Torok, Nyree Gale, Quincy JJ Wong, Aliza Werner-Seidler, Sarah E Hetrick, Helen Christensen. Originally published in JMIR Mental Health (http://mental.jmir.org), 04.10.2019. ;2019. This work is licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;Jin Han, Michelle Torok, Nyree Gale, Quincy JJ Wong, Aliza Werner-Seidler, Sarah E Hetrick, Helen Christensen. Originally published in JMIR Mental Health (http://mental.jmir.org), 04.10.2019 2019 ;ISSN: 2368-7959 ;EISSN: 2368-7959 ;DOI: 10.2196/14191 ;PMID: 31588913

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  • Title:
    Use of Web Conferencing Technology for Conducting Online Focus Groups Among Young People With Lived Experience of Suicidal Thoughts: Mixed Methods Research
  • Author: Han, Jin ; Torok, Michelle ; Gale, Nyree ; Wong, Quincy Jj ; Werner-Seidler, Aliza ; Hetrick, Sarah E ; Christensen, Helen
  • Subjects: Central business districts ; Chat rooms ; Focus groups ; Internet ; Interviews ; Mental health ; Original Paper ; Participation ; Preferences ; Prevention ; Privacy ; Qualitative research ; Social networks ; Suicides & suicide attempts ; Verbal communication
  • Is Part Of: JMIR mental health, 2019-10, Vol.6 (10), p.e14191-e14191
  • Description: There is an increasing interest in engaging people with lived experience in suicide prevention research. However, young people with suicidal thoughts have been described as a "hard-to-include" population due to time, distance, stigma, and social barriers. This study aims to investigate whether conducting synchronous Web conferencing technology-based online focus groups (W-OFGs) is a feasible method to engage young people with lived experience of suicidal thoughts in suicide prevention research. Young people aged between 16 and 25 years and living in Sydney, Australia, were recruited through flyers, emails, and social media advertisements. The W-OFGs were established using a Web conferencing technology called GoToMeeting. Participants' response rate, attendance, and feedback of the W-OFGs were analyzed to determine whether the W-OFG system is feasible for suicide prevention research. Researchers' reflections about how to effectively implement the W-OFGs were also reported as part of the results. In the pre-W-OFG survey, 39 (97.5%) young people (n=40) chose to attend the online focus group. Among the 22 participants who responded to the W-OFG invitations, 15 confirmed that they would attend the W-OFGs, of which 11 participants attended the W-OFGs. Feedback collected from the participants in the W-OFG and the post-W-OFG survey suggested that online focus groups are acceptable to young people in suicide prevention research. Considerations for selecting the Web conferencing platform, conducting the mock W-OFGs, implementing the risk management procedure, inviting participants to the W-OFGs, and hosting and moderating the W-OFGs as well as a few potential ethical and pragmatic challenges in using this method are discussed in this study. The Web conferencing technology provides a feasible replacement for conventional methods, particularly for qualitative research involving vulnerable populations and stigmatized topics including suicide prevention. Our results indicate that this modality is an optimal alternative to engage young people in the focus group discussion. Future studies should compare the data collected from the Web conferencing technology and conventional face-to-face methods in suicide prevention research to determine if these two methods are equivalent in data quality from a quantitative approach.
  • Publisher: Canada: JMIR Publications
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2368-7959
    EISSN: 2368-7959
    DOI: 10.2196/14191
    PMID: 31588913
  • Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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