QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMS IN NUTRITION IN BRAZIL: ANALYSIS OF DISSERTATIONS AND THESES
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https://doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2013.6741Abstract
This article intends to identify and analyze the philosophical and methodological trends of the scientific knowledge that were responsible for the dissertations and theses with qualitative and mixed approaches produced by postgraduate programs in Nutrition in Brazil in the period of 2003 to 2012. Of the 22 postgraduate programs that were connected to the area of Nutrition of Coordination for the Development of Higher Education Personnel, seven programs that provide websites with the list of dissertations and theses were investigated. Regarding the scientific knowledge approaches, the dissertations and theses were organized into: quantitative approaches, qualitative approaches and mixed approaches. The analysis proceeded, in addition to reading the abstracts and methodological summaries, to the identification of the bibliographic reference used, seeking to identify: a) The type of approach or design; b) The procedures and instruments of the process of data collection; c) The data analysis procedures; and d) The main and supporting theoretical references. The hegemony of the quantitative approach, adopted by 92.5% (n=890) of the total dissertations and theses analyzed, shows the strong influence that the philosophical trends based on positivism and biological sciences still have on the field of Nutrition. The “marginal” and “forthcoming” participation of the qualitative and mixed approaches, adopted by only 7.3% (n=70) of the total dissertations and theses analyzed, expresses the influence that social and human sciences and the philosophical currents such as dialectics and phenomenology have on a very narrow group of researchers that set up the field of Nutrition.Downloads
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