The phenomenological method of research in health areas in publications in Brazil
Keywords:
Phenomenological method, psychology and health research, phenomenologyAbstract
The phenomenological research method has been a means of disseminating knowledge, characterized as a qualitative bias, favoring the understanding of the studied phenomena, with emphasis on the analysis of the meanings attributed by the participants. This article aims to understand how the phenomenological method has been used in psychology and health research. For this, we sought to identify in the context of research in psychology and health those that appear the most; analyze and compare which areas of study use phenomenology; and in what practical way the method is used. It was carried out from the databases of scientific production, BVSalud, SciELO, PePsic and PsycINFO; For the inclusion of the results, a time span of 5 years was considered, research that used the phenomenological method in the treatment of their data, which were carried out by psychology or any other area of health. The phenomenological method was used by the nursing area in 16 articles, in psychology 3 and in physiotherapy 1. It is concluded that the method has enabled the construction and transversalization of knowledge in the areas of psychology and health