[The grounded theory as a methodological alternative for nursing research].
This study presents a method of interpretative and systematic research with appliance to the development of studies in nursing called "the grounded theory", whose theoretical support is the symbolic interactionism. The purpose of the paper is to describe the grounded theory as an alternative methodology for the construction of knowledge in nursing. The study highlights four topics: the basic principle, the basic concepts, the trajectory of the method and the process of analysis of the data. We conclude that the systematization of data and its interpretation, based on social actors' experience, constitute strong subsidies to generate theories through this research tool.
dos Santos
Sérgio Ribeiro
SR
Departamento de Enfermagem-DEMCA/UFPB.
da Nóbrega
Maria Miriam
MM
D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D009742:Nursing Theory