Many Bardin's quotes, few worries about quality: an assessment on qualitative content analysis in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Sampaio, Rafael Cardoso
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Sanchez, Cristiane Sinimbu, Marioto, Djiovanni Jonas França, Araujo, Beatrice Cristina dos Santos, Herédia, Larissa Helena Olivares, Paz, Felipe Schwarzer, Tigrinho, Camila Schiavon, Souza, Josiane Ribeiro de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Pesquisa Qualitativa (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://editora.sepq.org.br/rpq/article/view/547
• topic: Análise de Conteúdo; Pesquisa Qualitativa; Qualidade da pesquisa qualitativa; Epistemologia; Content Analysis; Qualitative Research; Quality of qualitative research; Epistemology

Content analysis (CA) is one of the main techniques for analysing qualitative data in Brazilian science, but it has been verified in different fields low quality of its application and a predominant use of Laurence Bardin's manual. The present research seeks to make a qualitative assessment of studies based on CA in different areas of research in Brazil. For that, we built a sample of 549 articles extracted from SciELO Brazil that applied the technique and then we applied a quantitative and qualitative content analysis to assess the quality of these publications. The results indicate a low quality of the articles in terms of explicitness and availability of the categories and units of analysis and of concern with reliability, methodological transparency and data validation. The research also reinforces the exacerbated and uncritical use of Bardin's manual. We argue that this is a general issue of the technique’s use in the country and the urgent need for a greater epistemological and methodological discussion.