Content analysis in studies using the clinical-qualitative method: application and perspectives

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem

Claudinei José Gomes Campos²  Egberto Ribeiro Turato¹ 

[1] ,Universidade de Campinas Faculdade de Ciências Médicas ,Brazil

关键词: methods;    qualitative research;    nursing methodology research;    métodos;    investigación cualitativa;    investigación metodológica en enfermería;    métodos;    pesquisa qualitativa;    pesquisa metodológica em enfermagem;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0104-11692009000200019

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Content analysis comprises a set of techniques for organizing communication/information - a procedure used with qualitative data to make themes/topics and concepts/knowledge emerge. Communication content, considering human written or spoken discourse, is complex and presents valuable polysemous characteristic. With the dissemination of the clinical-qualitative method, the use of content analysis, considered an important methodological tool, raises theoretical-practical issues that need to be taken into consideration for its academically precise use. Thus, this article aimed to enumerate specific elements of the content analysis technique and discuss its suitability for the clinical-qualitative method that combines generic qualitative methods from Human and Cultural Sciences with the area of Health Sciences. Concepts were selected due to their pertinence, use and eventual adaptation to the method focused on.

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