I have finally started analysing the FGDs after collating the information. I still need to reference other research projects though to fully understand what I need to do and how to do it. Picking out specific themes that run through out the FGDs will be interesting, and having summarised all the FGDs will help with being able to pick out these themes. It also helps that after reading through the transcripts over and over I have quite a good idea about the specific themes and similarities between the various FGDs. I have yet to decide however how to break down the report - do I put the service users and non-service users together, or go by questions, or by general themes (particularly as there were some things that both service and non-service users both suggested and were in agreement about).
One thing I have to be careful about is that I actually analyse the findings and not merely deliver a summary of them. I am still a little unclear however as to how much I am supposed to include in this report, as I want to make sure that it does not overstep into the recommendations that I will be making in the subsequent report.
As I started to pick out the themes and headings and put specific questions together in groups, I began to realise that attempting to tructure the report based on questions would be near impossible, as many of the questions we finally posed to them were not a part of the interview questions prepared, and not all the questions were asked to all the groups (as some questions surfaced only during the later part of the series of FGDs). I had to find a way to group the similar questions together, and find appropriate headings or titles for each of these groups. However this still needs a lot of fine tuning, and I am glad that I get the chance to do this now during my placement as it affords me the time to be able to rewrite and redo the analysis (should I need to).
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