“…Apart from Western cultures, focus groups have also been used internationally in Saudi Arabia (AbuRasain & Williams 1999), Vietnam (Long et al 1999), Cambodia (Sadana & Snow 1999), Jamaica (Eggleston et al 1999), China (Lai & Salili 1999), Nepal (Baker & Hinton 1999) and the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand (Ingersoll Dayton & Saengtienchai 1999). Methodologically, focus groups on health have been used in at least four ways: as exploratory, where little or nothing is known in the area (Oliva et al 1999); in evaluation (AbuRasain & Williams 1999); in longitudinal studies (Grundy & Bowling 1999) and to test instruments (Grundy & Bowling 1999).…”