Contribuciones, evidencia de la Investigación Cualitativa a la Salud Comunitaria

Abstract

Qualitative research (IC) proposed methods in which subjectivity and various authors agree on the IC as an indispensable tool in nursing as a social profession, to understand the process of life, disease and death is sought. The demographic changes and holistic way we understand the care nurses have been crucial to its development. IC across three elements are essential: reflexivity, flexibility and circularity. According to the methodology, we can distinguish two groups: the interpretive / constructivist, whose paradigms are phenomenology, grounded theory and ethnography; and participatory / sociocritic where the Participatory Action Research. Some authors refer to terms of scientific evidence in the IC, some refer to the validity of its results is not statistics but should be interpreted based on criteria of quality and rigor in methodology and analysis of speech. Finally, we can say that "Integrating our training and development in the IC inevitably impact on the humanization of care for people and communities."