ABSTRACT. This paper reports the proposal, validation and application of a model of markers to perspective the university of the next 20 years, supported by a theoretical framework based on the essence of the university, its organizational models (Boyer, 1990; Conceição, Durão, Heitor, & Santos, 1998; Feijó & Tamen, 2017; OCDE/CERI, 2004; UNESCO, 2003; World Economic Forum, 2016) and projection of scenarios (Chermack, 2011; Sayers, 2010). The authors Tavares, Oliveira, & Alarcão (2016) have previous work, an inductive study that framed an initial set of 14 markers that constituted a first version of the model: minds, affection, autonomy, technology, methods, organization, buildings, financing, contexts, equipment, behaviour, employability, democracy and internationalization. The research team designed three diverse university scenarios with the model's markers to provoke initial reflection and critique during the empirical test obtained in focus group sessions with 51 participants (students, researchers and professors) of the University of Aveiro, invited to discuss probable "future university" scenarios. Scenario A - a very competitive, open university, challenging, questioning, creative, ethical, decentralised, cultural, autonomous, free and responsible. Scenario B - an elitist, 'ivory tower' university, distanced, rigid, conservative, centralised, hierarchical, authoritarian, subservient, and submissive. Scenario C - a university of total openness, unstructured, visionary, challenging, questioning, creative, decentralised, cultural, utopian, laisser-faire. This research approach privileges a constructivist ideology supported by subjectivity, comprehension, dialogue, interactivity, contextualization, multiple realities, induction and relativism (Guba & Lincoln, 1994). The priority was the participants` opinion, their convictions, their perplexities, their reflections confronted with the reflections of others. The focus was on the individual, what she/he thought, felt and said. Researchers valued experience, the symbolic, subjectivity and inter-subjectivity as elements of human individuality and social reality (Minayo, 2017; Lipovetsky, 1983) and the awareness of the role of each individual in society and in the construction of knowledge. The fundamental concern is related with the empirical component namely the process of analysing qualitative data and the validation of the model. Research data collection included audio-visual recording and used mixed techniques: work sheets, questionnaires, observation and opinion valorisation scales.The main contributions are related with: the systematization of the participant's reflections and the impact on a future perspective of the university; the validation of the marker model; the transferability of the research process to other contexts and the use of innovative mixed techniques (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2011) to process and represent qualitative data supported by descriptive statistics to valorise opinion alongside holistic visual info-graphic representation of results. Some of the major results were: the marker model was confirmed by the 51 participants but with sufficient arguments to reduce the model to 12 markers - due to redundancy 6 markers were collapsed into 3 markers and a new marker, "sustainability", was introduced; there is no evidence that the initial stimuli, in the form of 3 hypothetical university scenarios, biased the discussion and results; the results obtained from the application of the marker model are context dependent and consequently not generalizable but the research process revealed evidence of generalizable applicability in other contexts.

ABSTRACT. Identifying the factors that affect FGM and its impact through the experiences of women who have suffered it is our objetive. The paradigm of departure is the sociocritical. Methodologically, the in-depth interview and Dialectical Structural Modelof Care were used. Results: the patriarchally regulated culture is the breeding ground of this "tradition" that has a very marked socializing component in diverse cultures and religions. The option of refusing to experience this practice leads to the absolute marginalization of the "rebellious" woman and also her family. The habitus and the logical conformism facilitate the maintenance of female genital mutilation as a rite of passage with an institutional character that is subjectively and socially accepted. Conclusions: the essential tool to combat female genital mutilation is the critical thinking in the context of transculturality that favors the opening of the feminine world to plural ways of thinking.

ABSTRACT. The nursing training empowers students to respond to the increasing complex problems, sometimes new and without pre-defined solutions in the clinical practices. Problem-based learning (PBL), a student-centered methodology is used to respond to the acquisition and development of skill necessary for professional nursing practice. The goal of this study was to analyze which competences nursing students acquired through the use of the PBL method, during their bachelor education,(a 4 year program). The study was exploratory, descriptive, transversal and qualitative and had its data collected through an open question questionnaire. The participants identify the acquisition of several competencies, highlighting the ability to make decisions, followed by nursing knowledge about care planning and teamwork. The results indicated a relationship between the PBL methodology and the development of competences by the students.

ABSTRACT. Informatics are part of most of our daily activities, and healthcare is also part of this evolution, particularly in the last decades. Despite its short history, nursing health systems have revolutionized nursing practice by requiring the use of a classification that propelled the discussion of the nurse’s role and autonomous field. As this discussion was initially performed locally, with each ward developing a customization to approach the reality of each context, this lead to the development of multiple data with the same meaning, as there was no standard regarding the construction of diagnosis and interventions. As part of a project developed by Nursing School of Porto (ESEP) to standardize diagnostics and interventions, and to introduce formal knowledge in the nursing process, this study targets the neuromuscular processes focused on the impact in the individual, and the development of a nursing clinical data model (NCDM). To develop this NCDM, a content analysis of the active national customization as of 2011 from the public nursing information system (Sistema de Apoio à Prática de Enfermagem – SAPE®) was performed. Data collected observed ethical requirements and were provided by ESEP. From the analysis of the data, a total of 1757 diagnostics formulated by the local customization teams were related to the neuromuscular processes. Criteria for exclusion included redundant, unspecific, positive, caregiver and parental related diagnostics, resulting in the corpus with a total of 977 diagnostics. Content analysis was performed based on Bardin’s perspective, with the ICNP concepts and the ISO 18104:2014 to be used as rules of codification. After analysis of the corpus, based on the rules of codification, a total of 81 categories were obtained and validated by and expert in the field, representing clinical findings (e.g. aphasia, spasticity), and transition properties (e.g. preparation and knowledge). This study not only demonstrates the need to standardize data, but also the importance of neuromuscular processes in nursing practice. We hope to contribute to the development of nursing clinical data model that evidences the nurses’ role regarding neuromuscular processes, optimizing the decision-making process with direct impact in the individual and health policies through the development of more reliable health indicators regarding nursing care.

ABSTRACT. Road safety has been the object of research on the influence of road accidents on the cause of death on a global scale, presenting a growing tendency, and becoming the eight cause. However, research relating to the establishment of intervention models is rare. In this study, the role of The Democratic Republic of São Tomé e Principe’s National Polices was subject to investigation with the focus on the likelihood of the qualitative analysis helps to determine a specific model for it. The qualitative analysis was undertaken by applying interviews to police officers whose competence placed them in the middle of the road accident prevention field. Studies with empirical data were non-existent in São Tomé e Principe. Therefore, the results allowed us to develop a model so that a national road safety program can be designed, for a pro-active prevention practice.

ABSTRACT. One of the main tuberculosis (TB) reduction strategies is the early detection and rapid administration of proper anti-TB treatment. Diagnostic delays persist, in part, due to healthcare system factors that hinder TB diagnosis and treatment, which potentially exposes health care providers as well as other patients, many with HIV, to Mycobactierum TB. We aimed to assess the acceptance and feasibility of having a hospital-based cough officer and a 24-hours tuberculosis laboratory (TB lab), prior to the implementation of a tuberculosis infection control intervention.

In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with auxiliary workers, nurses, TB lab technicians, medical doctors, managers and decision-makers at Beira Central Hospital, Mozambique. Audio-recording and written notes were taken and content analysis was performed through atlas.ti7.

The majority of participants pointed out that a hospital-based cough officer is an accepted figure but due to the scarcity of human resources, their duties should be performed by auxiliary workers. Interviewees stated that although the clinical laboratories are working 24-hours/day, there is no TB services provision after 3:00 PM, on weekends or on (inter)national holidays. A TB lab installed by the emergency room and treatment sites working 24-hours/day is considered useful to reduce associated delays. Availability of TB services together with a hospital-based cough officer are expected to contribute to early detection, treatment and isolation of confirmed tuberculosis patients.

The availability of the hospital-based cough officer and 24-hour TB lab are acceptable and feasible strategies for tuberculosis infection control in the Beira Central Hospital settings. Applying qualitative methodologies before implementing a new intervention seems to be very useful to ensure local and sustainable strong evidence-based implementation science approaches.

ABSTRACT. This study presents the experience of a feminist pedagogical practice of inclusive readings as well as a space for critical questioning stemming from the reflective literary analysis of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls in an English class for the Computer Engineering major of Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, an Carlos Campus. Based on domain analysis, this study highlights the inspiration behind the stories, a sense of determination in the characters, and the acquisition of knowledge through the stories; simultaneously, it emphasizes the denial of gender equality, the acknowledgement of gender inequality, and the celebration of an innovative pedagogical practice that makes a difference.

ABSTRACT. The article aims to analyze how the application of qualitative and historical methods contributes to the process understanding and the complexity of the phenomenon of interculturality in organizations. The starting point was the articulated and complementary use of a set of qualitative and historical methods, specifically documentary analysis, narrative interview, life history and oral history for the study of the reflexes of interculturality in an organization of a joint venture. The concept of interculturality was taken as interaction and coexistence marked by experiences and symbols shared by members involved in a reality built by their behaviors and actions. In order to understand how this phenomenon of interculturality is reflected in organization, a historical approach to interculturalism was adopted to answer a question that is formulated in the present and answered from the past: what are the reflexes of interculturality in organization? The historical approach was adopted because of its interdisciplinary nature, because culture is one of the objects treated by the new history, to use elements that theoretically and methodologically characterize the historical approach to interculturality, and to allow, as close as possible, proximity to the history of the organization studied . In order to achieve the objective, firstly, the concepts and techniques of each of the methods used are presented and, secondly, the application of this method in the study on interculturality, in terms of purpose and operationalization, is analyzed. Regarding the operationalization, more specifically the field research sought to identify the characteristics of the group of subjects who acted or act in organization as employees from listening to their stories, opinions, beliefs, values and customs, anchored in the "how" and the "what" of their professional experiences. Fifteen (15) subjects were heard, who presented their point of view on the historical trajectory of organization through their own experience. The use of this set of methods allowed the valorization of the discursive reconstruction of something that was lived by the subject and the reconstruction of a past that is not always manifested in the memory of the people. Interculturality was studied within a historical cut that extended from its constitution until its nationalization considering the aspects of the national cultures, local and organizational. The set of methods used also allowed us to affirm that the different cultures resulted in an interculturality integrated throughout the historical trajectory of organization.

ABSTRACT. The objective was to characterize the technical courses in nursing taught at the Technical Schools of the Unified Health System in the Northeast and to analyze their pedagogical documents. Qualitative and descriptive study, developed at six Technical Schools that offer the technical course in nursing. As data sources, the Political-Pedagogical Project and the Teaching Plans of the courses were used. It was evidenced that the course characteristics converge among the schools, highlighting the proposed objective, graduate profile and competency-based curriculum model. The pedagogical documents presented weaknesses in terms of the regulatory items, which emerged as an urgent challenge to be overcome, in order to better support the teaching-learning process and qualify the training. It is highlighted that the Technical Schools of the Unified Health System have been engaged in the training of professionals focused on the quality of health and nursing care and committed to citizenship and professional ethics.

ABSTRACT. Bisexuality is the sexual, romantic, emotional and physical attraction that a person experiments for both of the biological sexes (men and women). Since the Venezuelan society is built under a heteronormative paradigm sometimes is considered that those sexualities, that drift apart from the social reality, are not comprehended thus generating a reject. Therefore, we conducted a study that was titled “Construction of Bisexual Identity in Venezuelan Adults: ‘It is Not a transition, I Just Simply Am Like That’” that had as a general objective the understanding of the bisexual identity in Venezuelan adults. This article contemplates one dimension of this major project degree. In-depths interviews were carried out to willing participants and the obtained data were analyzed with the constant comparative method following an emerging design. Among the results four major categories were described, however, in this article we will be only focusing on the development of the bisexual identity.

ABSTRACT. The aim of this study is to explore the experience of the transition process from dating to cohabitation, specifically the challenges which arise in the transition and the strategies used by the couple. An exploratory research was conducted and a couple who is making this transition was interviewed and data was thematic analyzed by two coders with the support of NVivo11. Results point to the importance of issues concerning workload, financial affairs, routine and house labour. The couple’s strategies were mainly focused on not leaving any conflicts unresolved and remaining calm. It was clear that a healthy communication made the difference to overcome the initial burdens of this new chapter in life.

ABSTRACT. A mixed methods research was developed to analyze factors associated with nursing students’ errors during clinical learning, and their perceptions regarding these events and the opportunity for learning and development provided by them. Qualitative dimension included face to face and internet interviews. Miles and Huberman method of data analysis was an adequate choice and this study brought knowledge to achieve the aim above. Nursing student’s errors were revealed according to their perceptions, as well circumstances in which occurred and as a learning and developmental opportunity. Students acknowledged their errors and ascribe to themselves reasons and what could have prevented what happened. Suggestions founded on the findings are presented.

ABSTRACT. This paper analyzes capacity building in practice, addressing the expectations, imaginaries and experiences of health researchers from Mozambique and Angola. The empirical data stems from the Erasmus+ funded project “University Development and Innovation – Africa (UDI-A)”, a consortium established between European and African institutions to promote the mobility and empowerment of African academics, the establishment of North/South research partnerships and the strengthening of African institutions. Through qualitative research methods – semi-structured interviews and focus group discussion with African participants, and participant observation – this article analyzes the experiences of African academics working in the health field, their perceptions of capacity building and aspirations during their stay in Portugal in 2018. By addressing some of their concerns and achievements, this paper reflects on the performativity of capacity building methodologies, exploring a wide range of issues that emerge within the framework of North/South partnerships, inquiring whether it would be possible to decolonize capacity-building methodologies.

ABSTRACT. Application of the Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology allows a reflective, systematic and critical scientific procedure that aims to study some aspect of the reality, of the problem situation, with the express purpose of transforming and freeing the community. This is the methodological design that the transfrontier project SAREA has selected to create synergies between practitioners from the social action field in Spain and France and search for the best practices to empower social services users. The opportunities for exchange that are created afford the possibility of actors sharing WHAT is being done and HOW, based on a reflective and collaborative work to mutually LEARN the GOOD PRACTICES presented. In their role as facilitators, the education bodies leading the project will seek to systematise the co-constructed knowledge in the exchange and prompt the emergence of the "good work model" that underpins the practices submitted. The value added of this inter-professional cooperation translates as conceptualisation of practices for their TRANSFER at the territorial level as well as joint building of educational projects that provide our students with a BACKGROUND that addresses the reality they will be facing in their future careers in a creative, constructive and collaborative manner.

ABSTRACT. According to the National Cancer Institute of Brazil (INCA), cancer is the second leading cause of death with 190,000 deaths a year, and this number of deaths will double worldwide within the next 20 and 40 years. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that by 2030, 27 million new cases of cancer will appear and 17 million deaths will occur because of this disease. (Ministry of Health, 2016) Although the advances in medicine related with treatment of terminal diseases, cancer is still considered a taboo, and it is often associated with death sentence. (Bernardes, Bitencourt, Parker, Luz & Vargas, 2014) Oncology care requires higher technical knowledge by nurses, but more importantly, they need the ability to deal with feelings and emotions of patients who can be or not be cured. (Cruz & Rossato, 2015) This is part of the daily routine of the nurse to deal with suffering, anguish, sadness and fear that arise during the caring and dying processes. (Barbosa & Silva, 2007; Magalhães, Silva, Trombetti, Barreiros, Requena & Lima, 2007) This study was guided by the questions, What is the meaning of death to nurses? How nurses’ cope with the need to take care of terminal cancer patients? Objective: To understand nurses' experiences and perceptions about death of cancer patients. Method: This was a descriptive and qualitative study conducted in the oncology unit of a private hospital in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The sample included nine nurses, and most of them were women (77.7%) aged between 24 and 46 years. In 2017, after approval by the Research Ethics Committee (CAAE: 64980817.0.0000.0071), data were collected using personal semi-structured interviews. Participants signed an informed consent form prepared according to Resolution 466/2012. (Ministry of Health, 2013) Results: Analysis of data were performed using the Bardin’s Content Analysis Technique. (Bardin, 2011) After analysis, three categories appeared: the meaning of death to nurses, which is natural when they thinking it as part of the life´s process; their history and practical experience with cancer patients, and they frustration and anguishing when they lost one patient, the personal and emotional involvement of this professional with cancer patient and his/her family before patient’s death, because to them, it is hard to separate personal from professional feelings. Final considerations: This study enables to understand nurses' experiences and perceptions regarding death of cancer patients, who reported great anxiety and distress when face such situation. To develop effective strategies to approach individuals dealing with distressful situations in research context can contribute to obtain subsidies that will guide clinical practice in health area. Working with individuals' perception and feeling needs preparation from researchers who find the qualitative research approach as a support to investigate their concerns.

ABSTRACT. A descriptive-exploratory investigation with pre-experimental design tried to answer the question how sport performance in competition is influenced by emotions? Two assessing instruments were built – Questionário Emoção e Desempenho Desportivo (QEDD, study 1) and Sistema de Observação do Desempenho Desportivo - (SODD -1, study 3). Interviews were used to identify the emotions triggers and which sport performance factors were influenced by those emotions (study 2). Study 4 intended to answer the research question, with two football players. For both players different kinds of emotions were generated by the same trigger and by different triggers. For player 1, positive and negative emotions always had a functional effect in sport performance; for player 2, positive emotions had only a functional effect on sport performance, negative emotions had both effects in sport performance (functional and dysfunctional), and some of the studied emotions had no influence in sport performance.

ABSTRACT. Collaborating in research projects provides students with the exercise of scientific content and the development of critical capacity, making them an added value for the integration in the academic environment. Additionally, it increases student confidence and promotes teamwork, as well as reducing school unsuccess (Ishiyama, 2014). Being introduced in undergraduate programmes, it is considered an opportunity for students to develop academic and interpersonal skills (Frade, Chora, Marques, & Sim-Sim, 2013). For the past two decades, active learning has been widely discussed, with several studies demonstrating the effectiveness of the use of active teaching and learning methodologies in Higher Education, specially with the increase of motivation and interest, ease of understanding of knowledge, skills development and better collaborative working capacity (cooperative learning) (Machemer & Crawford, p. 11), either as a student or as a future professional (Moreira & Ribeiro, 2016). This paper explores and describes the importance of using active learning, observing the fundamental exercise of Problem and Project-Based Learning (PPBL) through the collaboration of students in the development of the Cognitive Stimulation Program (CSP) for elderly population with Light Cognitive Decline (LCD), included in the Mind & Gait project . The PPBL allows the student to come across a new world: that of research, enabling the active search for information to support complex theoretical premises, consolidating and complementing with subjects learned in the different curricular units (Farias, Martin, & Cristo, 2015). In this context, it was intended to answer the research question: In the perception of students and lecturers of Occupational Therapy, to what extent does participation in research projects contribute for student’s pedagogical and scientific development? "The goal of the present study was to understand the participants' perception of pedagogical and scientific gains of students after being actively involved in carrying out a research project. Therefore, it followed a qualitative approach, with a descriptive-exploratory purpose to understand and interpret phenomena based on the meaning attributed by the participants, describing the students' perception of their involvement in the development of CSP. It was carried out a case study research design to capture the particularity and complexity of the case (Ribeiro, Brandão, & Costa, 2016) here consubstantiated in an active learning strategy on cognitive stimulation in the lecture room, with third-year Occupational Therapy students. For data collection, a semi-structured interview, a focus group, with key informants, and a questionnaire, were used for a set of participants (students and a professor) of the third year of Occupational Therapy Degree of the Polytechnic of Leiria. Data was processed resorting to content analysis according to Bardin and supported by WebQDA software. It was observed the double involvement of students (as participants in the selection and development of the cognitive stimulation sessions and as a research team member). There was evidence of the pedagogical contributions, with perceived effective learning and scientific advancement, namely in the area of cognitive stimulation, particularly in the development of clinical reasoning. The students’ practical involvement in research projects enhanced learning and knowledge acquisition, as well the advancement of research practice.

ABSTRACT. The present study is part of a broader research aimed to extend the understanding of the transition to motherhood after the age of 35, a trend that has been observed in developed countries, including Portugal. Objective: to understand the transition process of women in maternity status after 35 years. Methodology: We used the Kathy Charmaz's Grounded Theory (2014). The results allowed the construction of a comprehensive model of the transition to motherhood experience after the age of 35, called "Metamorphosis in Mother". This process integrates several categories, being only addressed in this article: "Confronting the dark side" and "Caring for herself". Conclusion: from the results we highlight the difficulties experienced by the mothers around the 2nd month, which revealed an obscure side of motherhood unknown to mothers and the need to take care of themselves to overcome these difficulties.

ABSTRACT. In education policies in Portugal, teacher training must provide a response to the objective of “The Promotion of Schooling Success”. The policies in question have revealed difficulties in the domains of pedagogical and interpersonal relations. The study is set in the context of the training of 140 teachers, from various education cycles. It deals with the theme of conflict mediation and was undertaken at 9 Portuguese school groupings. The purpose of our research was to gain a greater understanding of teachers’ perceptions regarding the praxis of conflict mediation in the school context. A qualitative research study of several cases was carried out. The data was gathered from written narratives and critical reports drafted by teachers at the end of the training programme. Data analysis derived from the content at hand, and was supported by webQDA® software. The results observed indicated that mediation is applicable and worthwhile; it is considered to generate positive effects even when it constitutes a challenge for the consolidation of acquired competencies.

ABSTRACT. The Internet is a huge repository of personal stories and ethnographic data. Why, as qualitative researchers, have we been so slow off the mark in studying the global social database that is the Internet? Our procedural and ethical guidelines for web research are in their infancy. The topics that we write about and online sites we study often are narrow in scope and stale-dated by the time they are published. Speaking as a qualitative researcher, early-adopting Internet user, and online researcher currently studying the blogosphere, I outline some of the challenges that contribute to the gap between the potential and current state of qualitative cyber research, reflect on the example of research ethics, and share an example from my research on blogs.

ABSTRACT. This article presents the theoretical development, application and researcher experience of using a web-based interactive mapping application on internet-connected tablets during fieldwork conducted with young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds in Adelaide, South Australia. The fieldwork contributed to a study which used Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory to explore how young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds (re)develop their social networks. The article contributes to discussions about novel methods that are derived from and have the capacity to extend theory to answer specific research questions. The article concludes that while using a web-based interactive mapping application requires a degree of participant technological literacy, it can be an effective and appropriate method for research with recent young migrants with transnational networks and has the potential for broader application in any studies with any highly mobile populations or dispersed networks.

ABSTRACT. The concept of emotional labour is investigated in healthcare by various disciplinary areas, but in different perspectives. The purpose of this scoping review is to identify and systematise the production available in research database about the emotional labour in healthcare, not only regarding the distribution of publications, but also the areas of health that have contributed to the development and operationalization of emotional labour. According to the methodology of Arksey & O'Malley, were initially identified the search terms, later undertook an extensive research, having obtained 136 publications for review, in which predominant scientific literature. Regarding the design of emotional labour were identified three areas of focus, Nursing was the health area with more publications. There are significant gaps in qualitative and quantitative research, including mix studies, in all groups of health professionals in the Community context, and as well as in conceptual models and clinical studies of emotional labour.

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ABSTRACT. In the confluence of natural environment and human creation, gardens connect biodiversity with cultural values and services. Being propitious environments for socializing and engaging in leisurely and recreational outdoor activities, gardens, and in particular historical gardens, have important cultural, aesthetic and even philosophical dimensions, as the result of the artealization process of nature into landscape. Azorean historical gardens, especially those of S. Miguel Island, were a must see for travellers and naturalists throughout the 19th century. The gardens came to be perceived and represented by the local elite as part of their identity and were represented in visu by photographs, postcards, paintings, and other artistic crafts as iconic landscapes. Furthermore, a return to gardens and parks is a likely consequence of the need to connect to nature in a world in increasing urbanization. However, the Azorean gardens failed to carry the same appeal on the 21st century. The research project, “Green Gardens – Azores (GreenGA)”, aims to explore new cultural meanings for historical gardens in the sense of a placemaking process. The emphasis is mainly on analysing the social and cultural dynamics of the use of space and the way gardens are conceived and represented by tourists and residents, to increase the patrimonial value of these impressive gardens. In order to understand how people conceptualise gardens, a study was conducted, in the summer of 2017, in three Azorean islands (São Miguel, Terceira and Faial), using a survey by questionnaire. Many people were approached by research assistants, inside and outside gardens, and 732 agreed to participate in the survey; among these there were 410 tourists, coming from 40 countries. This communication will discuss the proximity versus diversity of garden’s representations of residents and non-residents. For this purpose, data were collected on a free association of words, elicited by the stimulus word “Garden”, and submitted to a hierarchical evocations method, within the scope of the Central Core Theory of Social Representations, performed with the program Evocation 2003. At a first glance, these social representations of residents and tourists do not differ considerably, both emphasizing “beauty” and “nature”, as well as the presence of “flowers”, “plants” and “trees”. They are followed by a set of sensory experiences providing “calm”, “tranquillity”, “relaxation”, “freshness”, etc. A more detailed examination allows the detection of some differences: fauna elements are prevalent in the representations of tourists' gardens (“butterflies”, “insects”, “animals”, “birds”) while “family” is only seen in the representations of the residents. This approach will be followed by a methodologic triangulation using another descriptive-interpretative analyse, such as Correspondence Factor Analysis, in order to check the relevance and usefulness of the meanings produced by the two techniques in the analysis of social representations. Implications for the next phases of the green garden project are discussed to encourage garden visitation and reinforce place identification with Azorean gardens. For a real sense of place the perspectives of the manager/caregiver's should meet the motivations of the visitors whether they are local people or tourists.

ABSTRACT. In the early decades of the 20th century, qualitative research was overshadowed by positivist practice since qualitative methods were not considered as capable of analyzing and assessing social problems in depth. In the 1960s, a new phase began in the scientific field, when questions emerged about the capacity and exhaustion of positivist studies to describe and understand the reality of that time. Critics pointed out that such research failed to capture the pluralization of the social world (MINAYO, 2016). Likewise, from the 19th century on, Historical and Dialectical Materialism (HDM) was remarkably introduced by the work of Marx and Engels due to strong criticisms the authors made on the positivist approaches (PERNA & CHAVES, 2008; SOARES, CAMPOS & YONEKURA, 2013). Such criticisms were based on the fact that the HDM admits the possibility of an objective reason, arising as a result of the socio-historical organization of the society that is in permanent change. By contrast, positivism conceives a reason of subjective nature that is taken, in general, as finished in its own logical-rational structure (PERNA & CHAVES, 2008). This study aims to reflect on the experience of a research group, the Center for Studies in Collective Health (NESC, in Portuguese), of the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil, which uses Historical and Dialectical Materialism as a theoretical-philosophical reference for qualitative studies on health. In the HDM perspective, the health-disease process is historically and socially determined, since social transformations generate changes that are expressed in health patterns, both in individuals and in population groups. Studies conducted by NESC researchers in the last decade have shown that the health of an individual is directly related to the production mode of a given society in a certain historical period of time. Therefore health is a process that can’t be reduced to a summation of factors observable in the routine studied. In order to deepen the researches, theoretical and methodological references used in these studies are anchored in the HDM, and in qualitative as well as quantitative methods, which seek to reflect on historicity, relations, representations and perceptions of the subject over particular and collective conditions and over the health and disease process that occur in contexts historically determined by the established production mode. This perspective allows those studies to highlight a critical reflection about the realities observed, and thus to think about how it is possible to transform undesirable situations for health. The researchers have focused their discussions on analytical categories of the HDM, in this case, gender, social classes and ethnicity, then adding discussions on intergenerational relations. The group’s production is enabling the elaboration of critical-reflective views on the objective reality of the phenomena studied, but at the same time, its discourse finds difficulty to be diffused in scientific journals. These publications, for the most part, have affinity with positivist discourses, which bring generalized results that can be reproduced in other scenarios for possible comparisons.

1. A new  qualitative listening approach for a new social context. I understand that qualitative research techniques supply themselves from the social context where they take place, and as Denzil Norman K mentioned: “Beyond their historical context, qualitative research is a precise activity which is located in a specific place and time that provides a position in the world to their observers”. Nowadays, there are two important social paradigms: Digital society and innovation society. Both of them allow us to face on new qualitative listening approaches in order to grasp a better knowledge on social reality.
2. Acceleration  as a driver of  the New Social Reality. As Luciano Concheiro says, “Acceleration”: “The rise in speed is a peephole which allows us to see, avoiding a reducionist perspective, we are able to see - and perhaps to understand a little better - the comtemporary world and those who inhabit it”. From this perspective two key concepts are taken place that make a direct impact upon the way how the social subject is located in the world. Fragmentation of reality: We perceive a non-stop sucession of events which are being replaced quickly from one to another, this makes two direct impacts upon the subject: firstly, a coherent narrative from the subject is difcult to make up, and it´s difcult to create a meta-narrative that glues all happenings.
3. New narratives which define the social subject discourse as an informant within  the qualitative research. The new qualitative listening perspective provides an important transformation process. Not only on the digital enviroment but also in the innovation processes the qualitative listening perspective enhances a wide range of expression languages: graphic, audiovisual, body and sensorial language … Thanks to Forums, digital diaries, blogs, co-working workshops the subject role opens a process that transforms his/her own identity as a reporting subject in the research process.
4. New Interactions between Informants and Researchers. The nature of the interaction between the reporting subject with the researcher is radically transformed into New digital listening methods and into co-creation processes. In  the research based on social networks the reporting subject keeps a longer relationship in time, this digital interaction can take place at any time 24 hours a day, the access might happen from any electronic device ; at the co-creation workshops the reporting subject could move freely within an open area to experiment for about 6 hours. On the social networks and at the co-creation workshops there is a tough selection of the subject, the recruitment process is highly selective, so diferent from traditional recruitments tools. The motivational nature of participants is under control and it goes beyond the economic incentive.
5. References: N.K. Denzin and Y.S. Lincoln (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research. Copyright 2011 by SAGE Publications, Inc. Luciano Concheiro (Ciudad de México, 1992) en Contra el tiempo. Filosofía práctica del instante. Editorial Anagrama, S.A., 2016.

ABSTRACT. Introduction: Increased survival, especially for the elderly and children with chronic health problems, increased hospital costs, stimulating the use of the home as an option for the continuity of health care, being called in the private sector as Home Care (Wilknson & Leuven, 2012). When it comes to children, health care demands specific skills in the areas of rehabilitation, social and family education. In addition to being permeated by challenges, physical and emotional frailties that make it difficult to care for and reflect on intra-family relationships (DeLima; et al). The purpose of this study is to understand the influence of Home Care on the dynamics of the child / adolescent family. Method: An exploratory study of a qualitative nature, conducted with nine families and 14 caregivers of children / adolescents who were hospitalized at home between the ages of two and sixteen years, attended by a private Home Care company. The data were collected through a semistructured interview and analyzed according to the Qualitative Analysis of Conventional Content, having as theoretical reference the Symbolic Interactionism and Calgary Family Assessment Model. The conventional content analysis was elaborated throughout the discourse analysis, in four stages, which include: data coding, categorization, category integration and description (Hsieh, 2005). Results: From the content expressed by caregivers, the thematic category "Experiencing the impact of Home Care on the family routine" emerged. In this sense, the complexity of the actions, the close relationship with the family routine and the strategies are represented in the subcategories: Being difficult to get home for the first time in the presence of Home Care, Suffering from change in the family routine, Having to deal with lack of freedom and privacy, Facing sleep deprivation, despite the presence of the professional, Suffering with limiting social contact, Recognizing Home Care's interference in the interaction of the family with the child, Resigning the home to the demands of child care, Having to adapt to the routines of Home Care and Concerning the safety of the family. Conclusion: Home Care requires these caregivers to face new challenges and to adapt to difficulties, which they reflect in the psychosocial context and in the interactions between the members of their family and the multiprofessional team. In this way, it was shown how the family defines its internal functioning and how it interacts with the situations it experiences, enabling nurses to establish effective interventions and adequate planning for Home Care. References DeLima, M.F; DeArruda, G.O; Vicente, J.B; Marcon, S.S; & Higarashi, I.H. (2013). Children dependent on technology: revealing the reality of the family caregiver. Journal of the Nursing Network of the Northeast, 14 (4), 665-673. Hsieh, H.F.; & Shannon. S.E. (2005).Three approaches to qualitative content analysis. Qualitative Health Research, 5 (9), 1277-1288. Wilknson, J.M .; & Leuven, K.V. (2012). Fundamentals of nursing: thinking and doing. (pp. 223-35). São Paulo: Rocca.

ABSTRACT. India is a multicultural, multi-religious, multi-lingual, and multi-racial society and a country, which got freedom in the year 1947 after division in the line of religion. In this abstract, I, member of a religious majority group in India, have tried to delineate the challenges and issues faced while doing research in religious minority dominated places in India and the use of mixed methodology to cull out the ethnographic data in a judicious way. While conducting a sociological study on double marginality of the queer population of a religious minority group, I had experienced the reality of the dilemma of insider-outsider and could come out with a synthesis to arrive at proper description. The initial days of entering the field and talking to the desired respondents were easy but not wholly productive. Somehow, the ease of conducting the research was not there. I then realised that while gaining access to their community I was being overly sensitive. In order to be careful about not letting my ethnocentric bias obscure my objective vision, I was purposefully indulging in celebration of their culture and vehemently trying to be an “insider”. This made my research activity tiresome, less interesting and un-sociological. The famous “insider-outsider” debate in qualitative research methodology started feeling real. I paused and tied to investigate the real reasons for my unease. India has a long history of religious conflicts, complaints on minority appeasement for political goals and governmental initiatives and policies for the protection and uplift of religious minorities. The constitution, school textbooks, mainstream media and in general national narrative and politics have always socialised the people to “take care” of the minorities and respect them. This socialisation has built up an over sensitiveness towards the minority population. Still the most common social relations with minority in terms of “ roti-beti”, that is sharing of food and matrimonial alliances, is not acceptable in India in general. So whatever be the economic and educational level, the insider-outsider syndrome is very much common to a researcher and therefore is likely to affect sociological studies unless some methodological cares are taken, whenever the researcher does not belong to the community being studied. Our qualitative research techniques educate us majorly on the steps that needed to be carried out after entering the field. This personal ethnographic experience of mine taught me that for an outsider to collect rich ethnographic data, work and education on multi-levels are required. In order to overcome this intrinsic obstacle, I started focussing more on the internal process called reflexivity. I started maintaining a daily journal and spending more time in the field. In order to eliminate the bias in collecting data, I devised a method of cross validating my notes and findings by taking help of an insider through blind –method ( without explaining him the reason) which helped me in making judicious. In this paper I would like to narrate the entire journey and would suggest for an algorithm in research methodology to tackle such insider-outsider problem.

ABSTRACT. Violence against women appears as a serious public health problem worldwide (Tetikok et al., 2016). Saffioti, (2004, p. 81), mentions that "[...] the gender violence, including in your family and home mode, does not occur randomly, but derives from a social organization, which privileges the masculine ". Therefore, the objective of identifying the presence of micromachimos in the context of intimate partner violence. Empirical research, of type single case study, qualitative in nature. We used an interview with a woman who experienced intimate partner violence. As a participant of this research was a woman, selected among other six that experienced intimate partner violence. For the choice of case took into account the availability of participation, have prior knowledge about the laws pertaining to violence as a result of your training in law and the time of the violence suffered by intimate partner, and by the richness of the report brought in what was possible to evidence the magnitude of this problem front invisibility of microviolence. The collection of information was performed through semistructured roadmap. The interview was conducted at two different times in the months of October 2017 through January 2018, having an average duration of 40 minutes each. The interviews were transcribed verbatim, being reviewed in two different time to ensure the quality of the transcript. The findings were analyzed by content analysis on thematic mode, second Minayo, (2014), covers the following steps) ordering of data; b) classifying information collected by means of exhaustive and thorough reading of each interview and in carrying out the notes contained in the field journal, for the elaboration of categories of analysis; c) final analysis, through the joint between the corpus of research and theoretical framework. From the use of this technique it was possible to identify the following categories: 1) and 2) Use expansive and abusive physical space and time for you. The end of the study named Olga, 63 years, lawyer, but never exercised the profession concerned have suffered intimate partner violence during 36 years and nine months, divorced, introduced himself as a woman in a situation of violence given the presence of coercive micromachismos, being essential to the masculine power. These findings show a sexist culture, patriarchal model and heteronormative that is still very much ingrained in our society, domestic violence is still considered something that should be kept between four walls, being discussed only between the members of the family. Already the physical violence that go beyond the walls of the home with physical and psychological marks on the victims, is little tolerated by the population in a way. In the face of problematic opted for a case study methodology to identify and so understand the presence of micromachismos in the context of intimate partner violence. The end of the study from your life experience contextualized your universe within a framework of violence suffered, demonstrating how the microviolence were constants in your daily life.

ABSTRACT. Gestation requires special care, because at this stage the woman has experiences resulting from physiological and psychosocial modifications (Collares, 2014). Information on gestation is more easily acquired by electronic means, as these technologies are easily accessible and convenient for obtaining information (Fleming, Vandermause, & Shaw, 2014). This study aims to verify the meanings attributed to the GestAção application by pregnant women, from the usage experience. This is an applied methodological study, with a qualitative approach. Women who were in the first or second gestational trimester, who had smartphones with Android technology, and had access to the Internet in their daily lives (via Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G, others) participated in the research. Data were collected from June to September 2017. Seventeen pregnant women were identified to compose the sample, with which the interview was applied to verify the socioeconomic profile, the health conditions, the affinity level of the future using technology tools and the type of mobile phones they had (brand, model and technology type - Android or iOS). The research was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Fortaleza under opinion nº 1,666,807. In the consolidation of the sociodemographic profile 17 pregnant women presented ages ranging from 13 to 35 years, with an average of 22 years; being 47.06% under the age of 18 years. Among the participants, 35.29% are married or living in a stable union, while 64.71% are single. Among the most frequent levels of education were incomplete primary education (23.51%), incomplete secondary education (29.41%) and complete secondary education (29.41%). With respect to family income, 52.94% is in the range of up to one minimum wage. As far as professional life is concerned, 70.59% do not work. Regarding the credibility attributed to the information offered by the application, the users expressed positively in the interviews, denoting a relevant role of the tool in the context of health promotion, as shown in the following reports :

Knowledge ... It was very important to me, because before that [of using the GestAção], I had installed another application. But that application did not teach these things that GestAção teaches. Now that I've installed, I've learned many things! (G2). [...] as it is my fourth pregnancy, and all of them were different from each other. In my first pregnancy, I felt nothing, neither in my second nor in my third .... But in this one I am feeling everything .... When I felt something different that I did not know what it was, I accessed the application and he would let me know exactly what it was. It was very good! I took out all my doubts through the application. (G 12)

The application is an additional resource for prenatal care, with potential to help pregnant women interested in qualifying their knowledge and in impacting on the process of empowering pregnant women.

ABSTRACT. This research, in which we used Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) applied to the field of Educational Sciences, was developed within the scope of the project of PhD in Education. We submit the question - what relations can be identified between opinion articles concerning Education published in two broadsheet newspapers and the values and aspirations defended by the new middle class? We look at the school from an outside point of view: the discourse of opinion articles published by two Portuguese broadsheets newspapers: Diário de Notícias and Público, between October 2004 and September 2006. A quantitative methodology was used, and the directors of the newspapers studied were interviewed, as well as parents and teachers. Critical discourse analysis was used on the 20 opinion articles chosen as corpus of this study. The investigation has initially founded on Basil Bernstein, who studied the middle class, and Phillip Brown, because some of the opinion articles studied allow us to raise the hypothesis that they assume and legitimize parentocracy, a concept introduced by Brown (1990) to refer to parents’ more active participation in their children’s school life, namely the free choice of the institution they will attend. However, other articles seem to defend that the investment in school capital is made through a knowledge-centred pedagogy, coming close to the demands of meritocracy. It is our belief that it is essential to understand the intentions and the consequences of opinion articles related to the school. Therefore, the idea that parents are allowed to choose a school for their children to attend may be a way of implementing a stratified system, with an increase in social privileges for those who already have them. Conversely, the school may be understood as an element that can effectively promote standards of justice inherent to a democratic society.

ABSTRACT. This article describes the application of ethnomusicology in a Collective Health research. Considering that violence against women is culturally sustained, we start from ethnomusicology to investigate the relationship between music - as artifactuality - and the ideological formations that normalize this violence. Ethnomusicology based the epistemological assumptions and, together with Discourse Analysis, methodological ones. The research aimed to understand the meanings attributed to women, sexuality and gender relations in northeastern culture through forró and their relation to the vulnerabilities to which they are exposed. The corpus of the research was composed of lyrics of iconic representatives from each period, always seeking to listen to the female voice, which led to the exclusion of the second phase of university forró. The historical coexistence of these phases prevented a temporal hiatus. We compile all the songs recorded by Luiz Go nzaga and Marinês (traditional forró), Alceu Valença and Elba Ramalho (first phase of the university forró), Mastruz com Leite (precursor of electronic forró), Aviões do Forró, Garota Safada Saia Rodada e Ferro na Boneca (contemporary electronic forró). The selection of the songs occurred after exhaustive readings, guided by the analytical constructs that related to the models of masculinity and femininity and to the relations between the genres. A total of 617 songs were selected, organized by period and grouped into the categories Nordestinidade, Masculine Image, Feminine Image and Gender Violence. After the exclusion of the redundant speeches, 188 songs remained. The lyrics were read, the songs heard and the videos, when there exists, watched on average 20 times. The process of selection and categorization of the songs was performed in a period of six months. After exhaustive readings, each lyric was segmented into units of meaning, from which we began a detailed procedure of interpretation, articulating them with each other and with the socio-historical-political context in which they were inserted. We did not use any program for statistical analysis. Next, we work the discursive formations, relating them to the ideology of the subject, in order to interpret from the imagined or possible meanings of realized discourses. Subsequently, we perform a work with paraphrases, polysemy, metaphors and the relation say / do not say and we identified the discourse relations with discursive formations that are acting on it, in order to relate it to the subject's ideology and to be able to conclude from the imagined or possible meaning of discourse already realized. As the songs are in the public domain, there was no need for ethical committee approval. The triangulation between the principles of ethnomusicology and Discourse Analysis in the study of gender relations in Forró's songs allowed us to organize the songs into five categories (Nordestinidade, Social Relations of Gender, Masculine Image, Feminine Image and Gender Violence), whose analysis originated nine subcategories, each one originating a chapter. Ethnomusicology has emerged in this context as a possibility for the understanding of the social world in which asymmetric relations of gender are performed.

ABSTRACT. A recent review reaffirmed ways in which collecting qualitative data with children forms part of qualitative researchers’ emancipatory aims, while proposing further exploration of theory and methodology. Rapid progress has been made over the last few decades in theories and methodologies advocating for children and young people to be considered as legitimate participants and partners in research. One question is about the choice between studying concerns in children’s here and now with bigger questions about citizenship. Secondly we ask how we consider and express truth claims as we throw off the shackles of adultism within the qualitative tradition’s theoretical perspectives on multiple realities created and recreated during research. Finally, we acknowledge that a new paradigm must go beyond the European roots and verbal methods of the field and fulfill qualitative research’s emancipatory mission by embracing different cultural understandings and expanding our methods. We reflect on these three questions by referring to Australian and New Zealand studies on children’s rights, children’s perspectives on policy; physical activity, chronic disease, philanthropy and altruism and the status of Indigenous child health research.

ABSTRACT. The use of Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) is very recent when compared with the history of qualitative data analysis, which began in anthropological literature during the 20 century. More recently, and framed by the use of the visual element in qualitative methods, researchers have a set of data at their disposal with visual support such as paintings, photographs, films, etc., allowing the introduction of new interpretive elements that enrich the analysis and understanding of their object of study. This paper aims to systematically review the literature, examining the current state of the art of visual methods and visual data analysis, focusing on the use of CAQDAS at this level. To this end, relevant journal articles will be analysed in the future, with the identification of some important issues as well as gaps in existing knowledge. This analysis will provide valuable input for the development of research suggestions and directions for future work in this area.

ABSTRACT. Emergency of the cooperation has been studied from two parallel and complementary perspectives: structural factors and dynamic factors. Structural factors show the network’s features in which the individuals interact. To this date there is evidence that the quantity of individuals and the distance between them weighs on the cooperation emergency. The dynamic factors denote circumstances that are hard to forecast, arising from the interaction between the individuals. Some researches on the subject, emphasize the reliance, the shared knowledge, the need of reciprocal actions, etc. Nevertheless this researches are inconclusive. This study provides evidence that contributes to the identification of the dynamic circumstances that ease the Emergency of the cooperation in business organizations. The combination of three techniques of qualitative research were used in this project: formulation of hypotheses through a literature review, structural analysis through an expert panel and a longitudinal case study.

ABSTRACT. The importance of qualitative methods in the scientific field of Psychology has been questioned and there has been a greater acceptance of them, especially when there is a perception that they do not constitute a threat to the scientific knowledge acquired (Michell, 2004). Along with the recognition that has been happening to the qualitative methodology in Psychology, the way and the specificity that is required in this field of knowledge have also been questioned, requiring, more and more, the establishment of guidelines for the evaluation of qualitative studies (Leonidaki, 2015). Several issues have contrasted quantitative methodology with qualitative one and, sometimes, mixed methodology, combining quantitative and qualitative, appears as an alternative with possibilities to overcome difficulties associated with every single one (Toomela, 2011). This paper aims to analyse how the qualitative methodology is recognised and valued in the scientific production of graduate education in Psychology. More specifically, it was analysed the production of master's dissertations carried out under a master's degree course in Educational Psychology, in a Portuguese public university, between 2010 and 2017, and available online at the institutional digital repository. According to the defined descriptors, 68 master's dissertations were found and 14 (20%) of them used qualitative methods, 5 (7%) were qualitative and 9 (13%) were mixed studies. The researches that used only qualitative methods were diverse concerning thematic and methodological procedures. It was verified that they were carried out with the purpose of describing and understanding situations, adopting paradigms typically associated to the qualitative methodology such as grounded theory, ethnography or phenomenology. However, it was registered more mixed studies, combining qualitative and quantitative methods, when compared to qualitative studies. In the case of mixed studies, it seems that more conventional paradigms did not apply so clearly and the combination of qualitative and quantitative methodology seemed to occur as a generic qualitative methodology, as Percy, Kostere and Kostere (2015) suggest. In fact, several of these works were defined as case studies, and case studies are also characterised by the possibility of combining several data sources. This conjugation, according to Creswell (2009), occurred in three different ways: a sequential explanatory procedure (first happened the collection of quantitative data and then the collection of qualitative data); a sequential exploratory procedure (first, it was collected qualitative data and, afterwards, it was collected quantitative data); or as a concurrent triangulation procedure (quantitative and qualitative concurrent data was collected for comparison). Data show that qualitative methodology is recognised as a way of doing science, despite the predominance of the quantitative methods in the master’s dissertations produced. These results are according to recent international studies (Povee & Roberts, 2014; Roberts & Povee, 2014; Rubin, Bell, & McClelland, 2018; Wiggins, Gordon-Finlaysonb, Beckerc, & Sullivan, 2015), revealing that quantitative methodology still tends to be the dominant paradigm, thus conditioning training and research opportunities offered to students.

ABSTRACT. The impact of radiation on indoor building environments is still poorly understood and discussed in developing countries. In the United States and the European Community there is a great concern to avoid the risks that radon can bring to public health. Radon is a radioactive, colorless, odorless and tasteless gas, resulting from disintegration mainly by the decay of heavier elements and atomic numbers greater than 83, especially uranium, thorium and radium. Radon gas is more present in igneous rocks composed of micas, feldspars and accessory minerals such as zircon, apatite, monazite and in felsic rocks where there is higher content of silica. The soil may contain several radioactive isotopes. Through the soil, radioisotopes can be incorporated into foods and raw materials used in construction such as: woods, clays, sands, lime, cement and stones, especially granites. If radon gas is not detected, monitored and controlled, it could result in a serious public health problem, and even a high incidence of lung cancer mortality, as is already the case in the United States, where the deaths from radon gas exceeded the accidents with people driving drunken, falls in homes, drownings and fires. The purpose of this article is to clarify the possible ways to prevent, monitor and control radon radiation from soil, air and water. It is observed that in Brazil there is still no specific legislation on the subject, presenting little legislation for the mining sector. As noted in the city of Shiraz in southwestern Iran the radon concentration in 5.4% of residential homes was over 100 Bq / m3, which is above the level allowed by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is therefore important that this issue be widely discussed in academia, government agencies and society as a whole, resulting in the creation of rules and laws to protect the general population from radioactive contamination of radon.

ABSTRACT. People with Heart Failure (HF) have debilitating symptoms associated with psychological stress, which can burden both them and their family caregivers. There is a lack of qualitative research on the caregiving experience at the end of a heart failure patient’s life. The purpose of this interpretive phenomenology was to illuminate the experiences of home care of older relatives with advanced HF regarding their dignity. Ten Portuguese caregivers of relatives with advanced HF participated in 2 reflective interviews over the course of 4 months. The participants consisted of eight spouses and two daughters. The findings were sorted into two main themes: (1) Struggle between inner force and sense of duty; (2) Struggle between feelings of burden and security. Findings support that family caregivers need involvement in planning and implementation of their relative’s health care.

ABSTRACT. Organizational research has a pattern of special characteristics which make a clear distinction from other research paradigms. When using this kind of approaches – mainly those which are based on Action and Design – the Interpretivist, Constructivist, and Participatory perspectives dominate. They have already proven to have strong foundations – including ways of doing, data, and results – which turn these two paradigmatic approaches into effective ways for getting knowledge, doing things, and promoting change. The objective of the current article is to present a top-level conceptual model – under the form a tri-dimensional perspective – for Action and Design Research. It combines the traditional scientific, engineering, and organization development approaches – depicting how an organization can, simultaneously, solve problems, produce actionable knowledge, change, and artifacts. It has been developed using a Design Science Research approach, tested in a major organizational change program, and successfully used to teach research methods essentials to Master and DBA students.

ABSTRACT. This exploratory systematic literature review is a starting point for a deep literature review on “Knowledge Governance” (KGOV) topic. The aim is to have a quick picture about KGOV; specifically we try to identify the seminal, core and relevant documents. We also seek to know the contexts of these studies, as well as on what ontological levels and activities they refer to. The principal results are: a) the identification of the structure of the topic, by retrieving the main seminal articles and the most cited (core documents) and b) the building of a structured analysis framework. This framework will be used to perform a deep literature review that aim to develop an integrated and holist conceptual model on Knowledge Governance. Major conclusions are related to clues for future research on this topic.

ABSTRACT. The family of the person in critical situation experience continued moments of enormous vulnerability. In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), seeks to interact with nurses and give meaning to their actions and understanding. This work aimed to know in the lived experience of the family the interaction nurse-family and how centered-care-family is perceived by the family. Considering the problematic and the intentionality of the research, it fits into a qualitative paradigm and a phenomenological approach, according to Van Manen. Participants were referred to "snowball" and data collection was performed by interview with open questions. In the analysis of the data, three essential themes were identified: Reception in the daily life; Presence and be presence; Particular attention and the particularity of attention. The family faced with the critical illness situation perceived that the interaction with the nurses exists and reveals a cognitive and emotional support of enormous significance.

ABSTRACT. This paper presents results emerged from the ENAbLE project. The project was focused on the development of a Geogaming app - the OriGami tool – with the intention of contributing to students’ spatial literacy. The app was developed by a multidisciplinary team (educational researchers, experts in technology, experts in Geography; and teachers and students from a Portuguese school. Following a case study, data was collected (2015 to 2017) in order to evaluate the usability of the OriGami tool and to identify the impact of the project (e.g., development of spatial literacy of students). Following a research-based-design approach, teachers and students were involved in the evaluation process of the app. Potentials, constrains and suggestions for improvement of the OriGami tool emerged through the monitoring activities (e.g., usability tests, virtual meetings and teacher-training workshops with students and teachers). Results showed that the coordinator’ leadership, and the active involvement of project’s team, allowed to sustain the outcomes of the project (e.g., the involvement of teachers and students of this school in upcoming projects focused on the development of spatial literacy).

ABSTRACT. The elderly person undergoing arthroplasty (hip or knee) has functional alterations that affect their capacity for self-care and may promote dependence, interfering with the evolution of the person's overall functional capacity in the post-discharge period. This qualitative study, inserted in the constructivist paradigm, aims to define the criteria for the continuity of care to the elderly people subjected to arthroplasty. The methodological option fell on research-action. The participants were the health professionals of an orthopedic service and of the community care teams in the area of the hospital. The different techniques allowed us to identify the difficulties in the safe transition from the hospital to the community, and at this level two categories emerged: those that are associated with the client's health condition and those associated with the knowledge and level of competence of the informal caregiver; as well as they allowed the design of an algorithm to facilitate clinical decision making.

ABSTRACT. This is a pedagogical activity with students of the Masters in Maternal Health Nursing and Midwifery, applying the principles of simulated practice in the perineal repair after delivery. This procedure generates great insecurity and anxiety in the nursing midwifery students, when they begin their clinical practice in delivery room. The ethical aspects of practicing the procedure in clients also raises some concerns. Simulated practice is nowadays considered a very important pedagogical resource to the education of health professionals, including nursing and midwifery students (Martins et al., 2012; Baptista, Martins, Pereira, & Mazzo, 2014). Methodology: This pedagogical activity was included in the curricular unit “Clinical Practice in Delivery Room”, and took place during the first week of the internship. Mixed methodology: use of an online questionnaire with 22 items on a Likert scale of 5 hypotheses, and 3 open questions; a focus group session and filming. The aim of the questionnaire was to listen to the student’s opinion about the usefulness of the teaching method, the suitability, similarity with reality and pertinence of the scenario. The participants of this activity were 18 students in the fourth and last semester of the Masters course. They were all female and had a minimal prior 2 year professional experience as general care nurses at the start of the course. Analysis of the results: descriptive of responses to the 22 items and content analysis of the open questions and the focus group verbatim (Bardin, 2007; Streubert & Carpenter, 2013).  Given the small size of the current sample, the answers to this questionnaire, still in the collection phase, will be subsequently subjected to a descriptive analysis, where the percentages, averages, fashion and median will be determined. These quantitative data will complete, a posteriori, the present study. Results: The students emphasized the importance of this pedagogical activity in a safe environment, allowing them the acquisition of suturing skills, reinforcement of self-confidence and reduction of initial anxiety, reducing the gaps between theory and practice. This will contribute to better, safer care to the clients in delivery room. They also mentioned that it allowed them to experience and anticipate difficulties, and to develop critical thinking about their attitudes and practice. Conclusions: Simulated Practice proved to be a pedagogical strategy with high potential in the training of nurses, allowing a student-centered learning in a controlled and safe environment. This technique also provided the oportunity for students to develop critical-reflexive thinking, professional responsibility and to become aware of the ethical issues involved. The surplus value felt by the students through this formative strategy is in line with the perception of both the teachers involved in this activity and the tutors in clinical context.

ABSTRACT. Childhood is a determining factor in the adult life of the human being and the presence of the family is fundamental, especially in the first years of life (Nogueira, 2016; Scopel, Souza & Lemos, 2011). Not all children have a structured family system and, for many factors, they need to live in shelters or foster homes (Freitas & Oliveira, 2016). In this context, the child who was abandoned for their parents lives with people who are not members of their family not being treated with individuality and having to live together at all times (National Council of Public Prosecutions, 2011; Silva, Cabral & Christoffel, 2008In order to understand the situations of losses experienced by this child, researchers had used Therapeutic Play strategies, which allows the child to reflect on its experiences, facilitating closeness with adults (Ribeiro, Almeida & Borba, 2008). Objective: to understand the situations of losses experienced by institutionalized children in shelter, through the use of therapeutic toy. Method: exploratory, qualitative descriptive study realized with five children between four and 11 years old, from a shelter institution located in the municipality of Santos - Brazil, whose legal representative authorized the participation in the study. Data were collected in 2017, after approval of the project by Ethics Committee of the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein (CAAE: 63248216.3.0000.0071). Children assented their participation in the research, through the Minor's Assent Term, according to Resolution 466, of 2012 (Ministry of Health, 2013). In order to guarantee the confidentiality of the children's identity, the names of the children's characters chosen by them were used. The data were collected during a Therapeutic Toy session , which allowed the children to freely express what they feel and think, as well as reduce their anxiety, whenever they have difficulty in dealing with and understanding their experience (Ribeiro, Almeida & Borba, 2008). For the analysis, the Bardin content technique was used (Bardin, 2011). Results: the child living in a shelter experiences many situations of real and symbolic loss. Among them, one of the most significant that emerged in the game, is the loss of contact with his family. Other situations of loss was evidenced, such as: the change of child´s daily routine in the shelter, generating insecurity after the loss of the safe harbor that was its home; the constant fear of be separated from their brothers who live together in the shelter; loss of contact with pet. Final considerations: The dramatization of moments of their daily life in the play allowed us to understand the context of these children's life in the shelter, as well as their feelings, highlighting the situations of loss and the homesickness of their families and homes. The Therapeutic Play was evidenced as an effective strategy of communication with the child, it was recognized as an excellent approaching proposal it in the context of the research.

ABSTRACT. Objective: to analyse the musculoskeletal symptomatology concept in nursing undergraduate students through Rodgers' evolutionary method. Material and Method: An integrative review of the literature was performed for identification and selection of articles. A concept analysis was performed according to Rodgers' evolutionary method. Articles were search on the EBOSCO Host platform, Virtual Health Library and Google scholar from 2004 to 2018. Ten articles were included for final revision. Results: based on the 3 elements of Rodgers model we could found: 1) substitute terms and related concepts, where musculoskeletal disorders and musculoskeletal symptoms were highlighted; 2) as essential attributes of the concept we stand out, pain and discomfort, as well as measurement by the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire; and 3) risk factors were identified as antecedents, and the consequences were the impact on students lives. Early prevention of musculoskeletal symptoms can be performed during the nursing undergraduate degree.

ABSTRACT. The methodological objective of the paper is to present the strategy of construction of models of behavior moving from first-hand narrative data to analytical result and going through the stages of systematization and argumentation of chosen strategy. The main discussed topic here is how could one construct the typology basing mainly on narrative data and how could one combine narrative data with the objective facts of their biography? Empirical ‘ground’ for research is based on analyzing the professional occupational strategy and it’s motivation during life-course in situation of drastic social change. The article is an attempt to input to the debate based on subjective social mobility concept. While analyzing as an example the actor attitudes towards professional career the author tries to construct types and models of social mobility in the frames of life course transition. So the methodological strategy of constructing typology becomes the core issue here.

ABSTRACT. Prematurity is an exceptional situation both for children and parents, since it implies the increase of several vulnerability factors, which should be understood from the biological, environmental, social and parents’ emotional influences (Fleck, Piccinini 2013). The situational stress and parents' perceptions about their babies generated by premature birth, added to the hospitalization necessity, contribute to a change in parental trust, constituting factors that influence the preterm infant care at home. The study aimed to identify the perception of maternal competence in the preterm care after hospital discharge. Qualitative study, 15 randomly mothers of preterm infants were interviewed during the follow-up clinic appointment, between three and six months after discharge. The interview was recorded in audio and guided by the following questions: How is taking care of your premature infant after Neonatal Intensive Care Unit discharge? How do you feel about taking care of your premature infant at home in those first months? Each question had a specific roadmap about the premature baby care at home, how difficult this care was, fears, anxieties, mother anguishing experiences after hospital discharge, changes in the daily family life, among others. The data generated a construct, providing subsidies for the logical understanding of phenomena under study. Then, they were analyzed by thematic content analysis. Maternal perception refers to two categories, such as: premature care - adapting to the new routine, and also the daily care and maternal stress. Among the 15 interviewees, it was observed most of the mothers were primiparous, aged between 20-24 years old, studied from 10-12 years, and family income from one-three national minimum wages. As for the premature baby, the majority was born by a caesarean section, classified as moderate or late, and very low birth weight. Facing the demands of adapting to the new routine and the preterm baby care difficulties, mothers reported experiencing suffering, sometimes becoming tearful and insecure. This situation triggers feelings as anguish; nervousness; anxiety; fear; sadness and concern. These elements can be considered as challenging for maternal and parental development in the premature baby care at home. In this experience, the family dynamics requires adaptations, which have emerged as an aggravating factor for maternal stress, such as conflicts with the spouse and the perception of maternal freedom deprivation, in order to stay home with the baby. The period the preterm baby remains hospitalized up to the discharge is faced by parents as a critical and stressful time. This situation leads them to feel less competent providing care bringing vulnerability to develop a healthy parenting. These findings maybe corroborated by another study (Valizadeh, Zamanzadeh, Mohammadi, & Arzani 2014). Consequently, parents need more attention from the health team, in order to support them, either in the hospital, or in the primary health care. Despite the stress and fears faced in the preterm care after hospital discharge, along the time at home, the adaptation to the new routine came out. Although the difficulties in taking care the preterm infant, parents could build healthy parental competence.

ABSTRACT. The purpose of this article is to understand the relationship between the reasons given by small business owners for the continuity and closure of their companies and the reasons presented by Environmental Theories. In order to achieve this goal, the article started from the understanding that qualitative research "[...] places the researcher in the world, consisting of a field of material and interpretive practices that make the world visible" (DENZIM, LINCOLN, 2000, p.3) and therefore, we opted for an entirely qualitative approach in their field research, which is related to data collection and analysis (DESLAURIERS; KÉRISIT, 2008). The technique used was the thematic interview in depth considering the elements of life history and oral history, always privileging the emergence of narratives anchored in the lived world of the subjects interviewed. We chose thematic interviews in depth to understand that it allows the recall of the daily, the acting of the subjects. The field phase occurred in the months of November and December 2010 with owners and former owners of small supermarkets retailers Potiguares. The interviews were based on scripts conceived in the perspective of freedom of the interviewee in front of the interviewer's stimuli, being: a script for owners of "open" markets, and another script for market owners that closed their activities. At each interview, one participant indicated another owner to be interviewed. The main limitation of the field phase was the access to subjects that fit the second type of informant: closed business owners. Despite the indications of other known owners, only one consented to participate in the research. After the interviews were conducted, they were fully transcribed. The analysis phase was constructed from two levels of analysis which was constructed from two levels of analysis, namely: (i) reflections on the individual narratives, and (ii) reflection on the totalizing narrative. The first level of analysis tells the story of each subject from his first professional experience to the present, and presents a dialogue between each story and the Environmental Theories. In the second level of analysis, the emerging empirical dimensions are presented and discussed in the entire narrative, and also discussed with the Theories in question. The analytical process of the totalizing narrative about the object of study allowed the identification of several units of meaning that together are structuring the themes that guided the discussion and were considered as empirical dimensions, namely: motives of openness, motives for continuity and grounds for closure. The results allow us to state that the group of interviewed owners believe that the reasons for mortality and survival of small businesses emerge as a permanent tension between voluntarism (properly human) and determinism (systemic). And environmental theories point to motives for mortality and survival theoretically framed in a polarized fashion, seeming to prescribe watertight, modeling options for actors who mediate the organization-environment relationship.

ABSTRACT. The Qualitative Data Analysis Software Packages (CAQDAS) can be understood as a means of assisting the researcher in the treatment, organization and analysis of qualitative data for the purpose of developing research or projects. These softwares stand out and are sought after because they allow the qualitative analysis to be done in diverse formats (audio, video, image, text), levels of collaborative work (two people working at the same time or more than two), and the greatest possibility organization of the data surveyed. This article aims to present an integrative review about the most relevant CAQDAS in Ibero-America, highlighting the potential of i) greater organization of data, ii) variety of supports, iii) mobility, and iv) interaction with social networks digital images.

ABSTRACT. The aim of the article is to introduce the reader to the possibilities offered by software which supports the analysis of qualitative data in research projects based on qualitative methods. The analysis is on NVivo software and its functions. In this article, we present the way in which the options of this program should be used to constitute an effective means of conducting research in accordance with the procedures of grounded theory methodology.

ABSTRACT. Objective: To understand the experience of maternal overhead in the care of the child with cancer from the perspective of the mother. Methodology: The symbolic interactionism was adopted as a theoretical reference and theory based on the data as methodological. Held in a public hospital, reference in pediatric oncology, in Sao Paulo. The data was collected through a half-structured interview in the second half of 2017. Results: Mothers of children with cancer attributed meanings to the experience of care, when trying to deal with the emotional, social, physical, financial, family, informational and moral overload. Final Considerations: Maternal overload arises as a dynamic process of permanent interrelation of several overloads. The maternal figure, the principal involved in the care experiences the overloads, confronting limitations and responsibilities. As a key element to broaden the analysis and intervention of the family nurse, contributing not only to the theoretical construct, but also to the practice of care.

ABSTRACT. Maternal and obstetric health specialist nurses focus their attention on the human responses to life transitions, particularly in physiological situations. The appearance of associations, in Portugal, for physiological birth defence and for water births defence was the reason for this research. This is a qualitative, phenomenological study from the Max Van Manen perspective with the aim to understand the experience of mothers who had one or more water births in Portugal. Thirteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with women who had at least one experience of childbirth in the water. The data were collected between July 2017 and February 2018. From the qualitative analysis of the data emerged seven categories. Considering the dimension of this study only two of these categories are possible to be presented in this article, namely: the benefits of water; and the woman’s satisfaction manifestations with the experience of physiological labour in water.

ABSTRACT. The cost of social housing is very high in Ecuador and in some Latin American countries, so the social class with low economic resources can not access these housing programs, which is why self-construction has become the only viable alternative. to obtain housing in this social level. In the present investigation of qualitative and multidisciplinary approach, the social and habitability conditions presented by the population of low economic resources categorized in social stratum C- in the city of Cuenca are analyzed, in order to establish the spatial and constructive requirements, which allows generating design strategies to achieve a sustainable and affordable housing proposal for the social study group, guaranteeing covering the qualitative and quantitative deficit of housing in the city, thus improving the perception of the quality of life of the users.

ABSTRACT. This article attempts to show the connection of evidence management in a qualitative research for the social network analysis (SNA) from a cultural perspective in a Peruvian local government. Field work information has been processed and codified through the WebQDA software with codified matrices. This enabled the evaluation of the cultural network articulation of Pueblo Libre based on evidences processed with Gephi software for SNA. From this analysis the low articulation level between the district’s cultural organizations was verified.

ABSTRACT. Use of innovative written tests is studied to analyze students' attitudes towards them and the level of correct answers. These were designed with items to be answered in 3 modalities: individual, free consultation and group. The participants were 127 students of education of different emphasis and levels, divided into 4 groups. A document analysis worksheet was used to collect the results. The grounded theory was used for analysis. The discussion of results starts from the modality of the item, attitudes shown when completing the test and the level of correct answers. It is concluded that consulting does not always assured correctness; the individual responses gave the highest percentage of correct answers; at the beginning of the test they showed stress, but when they knew the modality, they showed a relaxed attitude and greater confidence throughout it.

ABSTRACT. The following article aims to support that a low level of networking from a local government might have a negative impact in the development of cultural projects in profit of the community. For this purpose, it is taken as study case the Culture department at Pueblo Libre’s district from 2015 to 2018. For this reason, primary and secondary sources (interviews and documents) were gathered in order to encode such information in WebQDA. Finally, the cultural network of Pueblo Libre was built by the software Gephi, allowing the analysis of the principal variables of networking and prove the low level of networking (15%).

ABSTRACT. Reflect on the suffering caused by the routine imposed by the Chronic Renal Disease and its correlation with the adherence to the treatment by children and adolescents in hemodialysis treatment. Method:A descriptive and exploratory field research, with a qualitative approach focused on the educational processes in health teaching. The population was constituted by patients between 4 and 14 years old, their relatives and professionals. The data were obtained by means of documentary analysis and interviews, between March and June 2017, in two dialysis units in the city of Goiânia, Goiás. For the analysis of the data we opted for Content Analysis in the modality of Thematic analysis. The steps guided by Bardin (2016) using the Software Analysis of Qualitative Data 7.5.1 were used for the manual treatment. The study obeyed the ethical precepts and was approved by the Research Ethics Committee. Results and Discussion: The final sample consisted of seven patients between 10 and 14 years old, 89% of the total enrolled in the municipality, seven family members and 15 professionals. In the categorization of the data emerged the categories: socioeconomic conditioners, support network, educational exclusion and the impact of the suffering in the adhesion. It was found that four families had incomes of less than two minimum wages, as well as the absence of their own housing, certifying that poor conditions culminate in social determinants of health and are related to the development of diseases (Ingelfinger, Kalantar-Zadeh, & Schaefer, 2016). It has been shown that resources outside the therapeutic unit are scarce with greater complexity, requiring organization towards the major centers. In the study, only two participants were residents of the municipality, and the mean displacement to attend the hemodialysis sessions was three hours, demonstrating disruption of continuity in health care (Schulman-Green, Jaser, Park, & Whittemore, 2016; Cherchiglia et al., 2018). The routine imposed by the treatment indicated to collaborate for the educational exclusion, since all the participants presented damages related to school attendance. Five demonstrated partial knowledge about their pathology and treatment, as well as fragile adherence to therapeutics for the prevention of complications. Understanding the educational process as a fundamental tool to provide individuals with the necessary learning to guarantee self-care, this data becomes relevant (Li, Jiang, & Lin, 2014; Ghadam et al., 2016). Feelings such as anxiety and fear, related to the occurrence of complications and painful procedures, as well as, the social isolation determined by the restrictions or stereotypes about the disease were also reported. In the child and adolescent population, changes usually have a greater impact, mainly on quality of life (Abreu, Nascimento, De Lima, & Dos Santos, 2015; Nerbass et al., 2017). In contrast, it was observed a dynamics that seems to favor the construction of a network of interpersonal relations. This, coupled with a receptive care team, can provide adaptation and coping, increasing the chances of adherence to therapy (Li, Jiang, & Lin, 2014; Campos, Mantovani, Nascimento, & Cassi, 2015). Conclusion: The study allowed us to consider that the context is permeated by experiences that cause suffering, negatively influencing the process of health promotion and contributing to the low adherence to therapy.

ABSTRACT. Introduction: managers request tasks inconsistent with their specific duties due to lack of knowledge regarding PH profession when interacting with Public Health (PH) students of the University of Brasília, for the Supervised Practice in Public Health 1(SPPH/1) at Primary Health Care Unit-5 (PHCU-5). The students have little connection with their future profession, so they had to reflect about the PH worker attributions in the National Health Service. Aim: to analyze the students' perception of the learning process in the SPPH/1 for the mobilization of the Local Health Unit Management Council (LHUMC). Methodology: action research, Content Analysis and the Theory of Communicative Action. The field diary of 6 students’ reports were the corpus from which the categories of analysis emerged. Result: The teaching-learning process in the SPPH/1 included the constitution of the LHUMC in PHCU-5. The following categories for teaching-learning emerged after content analysis: "skills developed in vocational training", "consensus reached for the mobilization of the LHUMC " and "challenges for the implementation of the LHUMC". Throughout the process, students realized the need to develop listening skills, dialogue with social groups, negotiation, consensus building. In order to change, they established a network that stimulated debate and consensus involving the manager of PHCU-5, the institutions participating in the LHUMC elective process, the Health Council, the District Council. Conclusion: In the process of constitution of the LHUMC, students realized the importance of community mobilization to break with individualism and the need to strengthen democratic bodies of the LHUMC in exercising citizenship. Conversation among social actors, allowed their insertion in a pedagogical dynamic that articulated the community, the environment and the knowledge.