The guide is a manual for researchers who will plan and implement a study on care-seeking for childhood malaria. It provides a care-seeking model and research protocol and offers guidance on implementing the research, adapting the protocol to different settings, planning logistical aspects of the study, conducting data analysis, and writing the research report.

This guide presents program managers with tools for designing, carrying out, and analyzing the results of formative and consultative research. It also explains how to use these tools to design effective programs in infant and young child feeding practices. The approach is based largely on the evidence that community nutrition programs are more effective in changing child feeding practices when program planners consider the voices of families when developing their programs.

This guide is for those who make policy and program decisions to improve management of malaria, particularly among children under five. It demonstrates how behavioral research can help develop policies for home management, communicate with the community, improve patient-provider interactions, and set drug policy. It also provides practical information on how this research is done.

This is a practical handbook on how to analyze focus group findings. It is geared towards people working in developing countries, including researchers, program managers, and technical officers who use focus groups to plan, monitor, and/or assess their programs. The handbook emphasizes the importance of gathering practical information for planning and improving programs.

This guide serves as a reference for some of the existing manuals for conducting qualitative research on health . The guide also gives users, including program managers, researchers, and funders of health programs, advice on how to select the research manual most appropriate to their needs.

This document provides practical guidelines in appropriately using focus group research, as well as suggestions for modifications to developing world realities. This exhaustive handbook includes an overview of qualitative research and guidelines for setting up and implementing focus group research.