A utilização da técnica de grupo focal: um estudo com mulheres quilombolas

• Autor(a) principal: Lisie Alende Prates
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Fernando Gomes Ceccon, Camila Neumaier Alves, Laís Antunes Wilhelm, Carolina Carbonell Demori, Silvana Cruz da Silva, Lúcia Beatriz Ressel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/5760
• topic: Grupo com Ancestrais do Continente Africano; Grupos Focais; Saúde da Mulher

Abstract This article discusses an experience using the focus group technique with women from a quilombo, or community of descendants of African slaves in Brazil. This is a descriptive qualitative anthropological study of 13 women from a quilombo in rural Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. The focus group technique allowed an approach, interaction, and exchange of knowledge, experiences, perceptions, and feelings, in addition to problematization and in-depth discussion concerning the meaning of women’s health care in the quilombo. The focus group was a prime space for learning and understanding the life experiences of quilombola women and the meanings they assigned to the experiences. In order to use the focus group technique, researchers must display creativity, sensitivity, attention, respect, nonjudgmental attitudes, flexibility, prior preparation, and knowledge of the technique and specific study topic.