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Focus Group
You have been invited to take part in a discussion with 8 - 10 other persons with similar experiences of living with breast cancer, or supporting someone who lives with breast cancer. This discussion will be guided by one of the researchers and take approximately 1.5 – 2 hours of your time.
The group discussion will start with the focus group facilitator making sure that you are comfortable and answering any questions about the research that you might have. Then we will ask you questions about how you seek out support and information about breast cancer. We will give you time to share your knowledge.
We will also talk about how community members support each other since this will give us a chance to understand how people seek out information about breast cancer in a different way. We will not ask you to share personal beliefs, practices or stories, and you do not have to share any knowledge that you are not comfortable sharing. A Who to Contact sheet is provided if you would like to speak to someone for support during or following the focus group. (See Attached)
The discussion will take place at the Breast Cancer Care or at Edith Cowan University and no one else but the people who take part in the discussion and the facilitator will be present. It is also very important that any information disclosed by other participants is kept confidential and not shared with other persons who are not part of the focus group.
The entire discussion will be digitally recorded, but no one will be identified by name on the recording. The information recorded is confidential, and kept on a university computer hard drive which is password protected: only the research team will have access. The digital recording will be deleted from the university’s hard drive 5 years after the research project is completed.
Thank you for your participation in this research project
Kind regards
Cynthia Witney
Researcher/PhD student
Edith Cowan University
(08) 9370 6560
c.witney@ecu.edu.au
Issued 02 May 2011
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