Table 2.

Panel series focus group format and corresponding sample focus group questions

Session 1:	Asthma management and barriers: What are some reasons why kids don’t manage their asthma very well, like take their asthma medications like they are supposed to? [Probe for: lack of knowledge, lack of access to medication, lack of motivation, lack of perceived response efficacy]
Session 2:	Developmental issues: How has the management of your asthma changed since you were a kid? [Probes: What are you doing the same? What are you doing differently?]
Session 3:	Support for asthma care: How are the following people involved with your asthma care? [Probes: parents, siblings, other family members, friends, teachers, coaches, doctor, school nurse]
Session 4:	Intervention preferences: What word would you use to describe something that is cool?
Session 5:	Critique of existing materials: [Lay out sample brochures]. Nobody took the asthma brochures we made! What did we do wrong? How should we change them? [Probe for: color, size, title, content, pictures.] [Probe: Should they be on paper, on DVD, on CD, on the web?]
Session 6:	Intervention brainstorming: If someone gave you this kit to take home, what should it include? Would you do with it (where would you put it)?
Session 7:	Review sample materials: How would you change these materials? [Probe for: more/less information, more/fewer pictures]