Unexpected Findings of a Female Team in Xochimilco, Mexico

Bibliographic Data

ID5455600
AuthorsCarolina Martínez-Salgado (Department of Health Care at Autonomous Metropolitan University, Mexico.), Carolina Martínez‐salgado (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume9
Issue1
Pages11-25
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/104973299129121668
PMID10558354
OpenAlexW2117584927
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited10

This is a reflection about the methodological circumstances that led the author to certain unexpected information during the course of a qualitative approach to the perception of health problems of a group of poor families in the south of Mexico City. Special attention is paid to the influence of the research team composition (four women with different professional backgrounds, ages, marital statuses, and styles of personal interaction) and the psychoanalytic technique that influenced the study. The inclusion of people of different ages, professions, and personality traits proved extremely valuable both as a means of widening the possibilities for empathetic relations between the research group and the population studied and for increasing the shades of meaning that the team was able to capture

Developmental psychology · Perception · Personality · Population · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Community Health and Development · Demography · Psychology · Social Psychology

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