PMC8856649_01
Asynchronous online focus group screening and enrollment of transgender and gender diverse young adults (August-October 2019). Note: All 68 participants who created a focus group platform log-in were invited to participate in a feedback survey following the final day of focus groups; 43 completed (63%).
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Overall, our team screened 108 potential enrollees, enrolled 71 in the study, and had 66 participants take part in an AOFG (Figure 1).
Distribution of AOFG participants by U.S. state (n=66 transgender and gender diverse young adult participants in 25 states)
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Participants lived in 25 U.S. states (Figure 2).
Example image from Social Identity Mapping Activity in asynchronous online focus groups with transgender and gender diverse young adults
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Figure 3 provides an example.
Example from Digital Image Board Activity in asynchronous online focus groups with transgender and gender diverse young adults
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On Day 2, participants were asked to use an interactive online "whiteboard" tool (www.webwhiteboard.com) to curate text, photographs, drawings or other images depicting and narrating some of the appearance-related messages they experience online or in other parts of life (Figure 4).
Asynchronous online focus group (AOFG) engagement: Percent of participants responding by prompt. Note: Smaller AOFGs (4) = 5-7 participants; larger AOFGs (4) = 8-11 participants. Two prompts were posted per day over four days, one in the morning (AM) and one in the afternoon/evening (PM). There was one introductory/welcome prompt ("Intros").
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Figure 5 shows the high proportion of participants responding across each day and each prompt. Overall participation levels in larger compared to smaller groups (Figure 5), while too small for statistical inference, suggest there may be benefits to smaller group sizes for participant engagement.