COVID-19 The challenges and opportunities for qualitative articles

Abstract

It is a well-known fact that the emergence of epidemicis excessive in offering issues of all kinds from anthropological to philosophical meanings, however for scientists, it is urgent to seek more precise determinants from the historical-geographical origins to social and biological ones, specifically to the epidemiological aspects. By identifying, understanding and coping with the phenomenon it becomes even more evident as the emergence and development of new Technologies specially in the medical field. There was the emergence of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the early 1980's, and subsequently the Ebola and the epidemic on Corona virus and its mutations, such as H1N1 and SARS; more recently we are able total about the epidemiological events of a lesser extent, which happened in Brazil, the arboviruses. Of all these moments, it exploded from the beginning a great number of researches thats ought to determine not only the biological and epidemiological mechanisms but the clinical features, in which led patients and their family members to over crowd care centers specialized in the field. Itis clear that these epidemics also represent issues to be faced by the governments, and further more, no one can forget these family members and people's emotional suffering. At the current moment, with the occurrence of Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, it is not at all different, and by what it seems, according to the enormous scale of the problem, the efforts that scientists' are putting towards their understanding has been increasingly urgent and of great magnitude. In most diverse countries, the scientific communities are extremely active and eager to achieve adequate knowledge for this issue. Already at this point, there are thousands of articles published in the National Center for Biothecnology Information (NCBI-Pubmed) as can be seen and many others are published in Elsevier as well. It is recognized that most of these articles are released in pre-print, therefore, not always evaluated conclusively by the peer review system. In the urgency of the moment, this scientific production is of extreme importance because it will contribute to overcome this issue. These papers are mostly based on quantitative analysis, fundamental approach inverifying the extent and biological and epidemiological depth of this issue, not only in the current moment but also in the future. However, in spite of these approaches, it is na opportune moment to observe the aspects specifically connected to people's feeling, not just those affected by the disease, but also their family members and, those who are going through this at the moment. How can we analyze these feelings? It is clear that a great number of quantitative researches on the psychological aspect will be carried out, but it is note worthy to remember that scientific work on the so-called qualitative analyzes will also bevery interesting because it will allow us to apprehend the specific methodology in these people's most precious and fundamental aspects-the formin which t...

Contexts of qualitative research in health

“…Considering the current moment of suffering and sacrifice imposed by the pandemic crisis, there is an urgent need for the emergence and development of new strategies to identify, understand and face the phenomenon (9) . Aware of the restrictions imposed on direct access to care recipients and their families, it is important to recreate the data collection methods during the research process.…”