Evaluation Using Focus Groups:

Topic Guide

Focus Group Attendees Occupation

1. What about the training this week was relevant to your work?

2. How would you change the course to make it more useful to you in your care
of patients?

3. What were the training’s strengths?

4. What were the training’s weaknesses?

(Tip: No need to ask questions 2 and 3 if the previous questions elicited this
information.)

5. What challenges might you face?

6. What resources will you need in order to implement what you learned in this
training?

Tracking focus group comment and answers

It is helpful to have a focus group facilitator ask the questions and keep the
group engaged and a scribe take notes or write answers on a flip chart so
everyone can see and track them.