The illness experience is a relevant issue in current research and academic discussions. A growing number of research initiatives have undertaken to account for the subject's perspective and subjectivity in the health field. This paper discusses our research team's approach and results in studying the experience of people living with chronic illness. Our perspective is based upon the production in this relatively new field as well as health-related discussions in Latin America. The illness experience calls for an understanding of it as a subjective and existential phenomenon, entailing the phenomenological arena, immersed in the process where ill people "produce" and "reproduce" themselves. The unfolding and course of the illness as well as treatment management are some salient dimensions we evoke. Some lines of future work are presented in order to create a research agenda, highlighting its implications for existing proposals pertaining to health reform in our Latin American countries.
Las enfermedades crónicas han pasado a ser objeto de creciente atención por parte de investigadores con una orientación cualitativa. Pocos trabajos, sin embargo, han profundizado en las decisiones metodológicas empleadas en los estudios. El objetivo de este artículo es presentar algunas reflexiones sobre la metodología empleada en un estudio cualitativo multicéntrico centrado en las perspectivas sobre las enfermedades crónicas y su atención. Los temas objeto de reflexión son la orientación del estudio, la selección del área y la muestra, el empleo de los grupos focales y las relaciones entre los participantes. Concluimos sustentando que las opciones y estrategias metodológicas empleadas, más que ser un asunto de índole técnico, están íntimamente vinculadas al objeto de estudio, a las relaciones sociales establecidas entre los participantes y al contexto del estudio.
This paper presents the results of the evaluation to analyse (from the teachers and students’ perspective) of the implementation process of a Licenciatura in Nursing in the Facultad de Enfermería, Universidad autónoma de San Luis Potosí México, since the programme that was radically restructured. Methodology: it was a qualitative evaluation with an ethnographic focus that lasted from January 2004 to August 2005. The informants were 36 teachers and 42 students who were selected through a convenience sample. Eleven central groups were formed for the collection of the information. The data was analysed through the examination of the content according to different topics. Results: the teachers and students referred to their perception of strengths and weaknesses in relation to the experiences, and the evaluation of the content and implementation of the theory and practice areas in the programme, the teaching and learning process and its elements; as well as the teaching strategies and the evaluation, the perspective of the main parties and the relation among them. Conclusion: it is evident that the strengths and weaknesses in the structure, and the processes of a formative programme that established ambitious objectives based on the pedagogical focuses that sustain them, required a practical transformation of those involved. The constructive and critical restructuring of the programme detonated changes in the existing education schemes and so the teachers and students faced the need to change these. The process has encouraged some people to discover themselves and to make decisions to improve their practices. However it has caused in others a bigger resistance to change.
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