title: Discomfort and unease of the subject in the interpretation movement of a Tuberculosis questionnaire.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to propose a discussion about traces of the derivation of meanings, the subjects' discomfort and resistance when they are called upon to signify a questionnaire on the transfer of the Directly Observed Treatment of Tuberculosis policy, in order to reveal the limitations of closed questionnaires in the subject's interpretation process.
  
  
  METHODS
  health professionals from a Primary Health Care Unit in Porto Alegre/RS were interviewed and some excerpts from the interviews were investigated in the light of French Discourse Analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  resistance, discomfort, slips, silencing and the derivation of meanings were observed in the subjects' interpretation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the interpretation process has multiple meanings and varies from subject to subject. The questionnaire, as a prototype of the logically stabilized universe, fails when the purpose is to control the interpretation. Its isolated use in health research can entail inexactness or incompleteness of the collected data. Therefore, its use associated with qualitative research techniques is ideal.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rarianne Carvalho
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Peruhype
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Laís Mara Caetano
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Elisângela Gisele
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: de Assis
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Carolina Scarpel
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Moncaio
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Paraíba, PB, Brazil.
authors.forename: Lenilde Duarte
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: de Sá
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Pedro Fredemir
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Palha
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D023801:Directly Observed Therapy; D006801:Humans; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000188:drug therapy