title: [The experience of public service users with group psychotherapy: a qualitative study].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the experience of public service users in a time-limited psychotherapeutic group dynamic intervention.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eleven patients were randomly selected from a group of 52 who had participated in an efficacy study and were interviewed in-depth. Their account was submitted to content analysis, according to the Grounded Theory methodology.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In general, patients accepted well and positively evaluated the psychotherapy intervention. The main findings were the importance of patient's interaction with the group participants, and their therapeutic course after the intervention, when most of them carried on with psychotherapy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The psychotherapeutic intervention was well accepted among the patients, had a favorable outcome and stimulated them to proceed with psychotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psiquiatria, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. epeluso@psiquiatria.epm.br
authors.forename: E T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Peluso
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baruzzi
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Blay
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D017150:Public Sector
vernacular_title: A experiência de usuários do serviço público em psicoterapia de grupo: estudo qualitativo.