Abstract
To analyze potentialities of the use of photo-elicitation technique as a tool of access to the real needs of the beneficiaries of the intervention of health professionals. For this purpose, the aspects of their quality of life that they considered more relevant were identified with an elderly group. It is a qualitative investigation in which the discourse of the elderly on the changes to their quality of life is encouraged through the use of photographic images. Based on the data obtained, it was possible to identify the aspects of quality of life considered more relevant by the elderly, allowing, therefore, to sustain a later intervention adjusted to the needs and expectations of the elderly. The use of photo-elicitation allowed verifying its potentialities as a strategy to collect significant and relevant information for the planning of interventions in the Health area.
Highlights
From the middle of the twentieth century there was a gradual change in the conception of the meaning of care, accompanied by a change in the models of health professionals, nurses
Research based on the use of photography has revealed its potential as a phenomenological research technique, in particular: I) in the way it allows to uncover the personal and unique experiences of the subjects; II) the way in which one can better understand the other; and III) the way in which it provides the perception of the way of interpretation and subjective construction of reality
We find examples of the use of photography to understand the experience of pregnant women in their contact with a maternal and child service at birth[8]
Summary
From the middle of the twentieth century there was a gradual change in the conception of the meaning of care, accompanied by a change in the models of health professionals, nurses. This assumption implies that the nurse is endowed with the ability to listen and understand the other, recognizing the value of the inner world of the person It is at the end of the decade of the 70’s of the twentieth century that, through the work of Jean Watson, we begin to highlight the value of access to this inner world of subjects through research, reflection and action of the meanings of the person and the process of caring, during health-disease experiences[5]. The spirit of care is not subject exclusively to technical-scientific logic or organizational principles, caring is assumed as a fundamental value, where everything, in its smallest details, forms a coherent whole moved by the same intention: The care to be provided to the person[6]
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