Questions for guiding focus groups
The literature search was used to identify potentially
relevant themes for informing the design of
focus group questions. The search revealed a limited
number of studies that had specifically examined
the attitudes of adolescents towards their teeth. The
main themes described by the literature are outlined
in Table I. The social cognition models were also
used to inform focus group questions (Table II).
The HBM informed questions that considered
perceptions of susceptibility, severity, motivation,
benefits and barriers; questions from TPB considered
beliefs about outcomes, attitudes towards
behaviours, subjective norms and perceived behavioural
control and the HLC provided questions on
participants’ perceptions of who controlled their
behaviours