Carmen De la Cuesta-Benjumea

University of Alicante | UA · Departamento de Psicología de la Salud

* Clarification. This article is based on the key-notespeech given by the author during the 9th Iberian-American Congress on Qualitative Research -Montevideo, Uruguay, 13-15 October 2021.

Cómo citar este artículo en edición digital: De la Cuesta Benjumea, C. (2017). El valor de bibliografía en la investigación cualitativa. Cultura de los Cuidados (Edición digital), 21(48). Recuperado de < http://dx. ABSTRACT Bibliography in qualitative research must come to live. The person that reads interprets. He/she is a reflective person that w...

Aim To better understand formal care providers’ role in fall prevention. Design Qualitative synthesis as part of an integrative review. Data sources Fifteen electronic databases were consulted with the time limit being December 2017. Studies included were qualitative primary studies on formal care providers and fall prevention of people over 65 y...

Objective: To summarize the qualitative evidence on the role of care providers in the prevention of falls of persons over 65 years of age in centres and in the community. Design: Meta-summary of qualitative evidence following the aggregation method. Data sources: Extensive manual search of 16 databases (CINAHL, Pubmed/Medline, Embase, PsycInfo...

Resumen Objetivo Analizar y sintetizar la evidencia sobre la prevención de las caídas de las personas mayores de 65 años y los proveedores de cuidados familiares. Método Síntesis cualitativa que forma parte de una revisión sistemática integrativa de diseño convergente. Se retuvieron 41 estudios cualitativos para su lectura a texto completo y qued...

The prevention of falls is an integral part of the safety culture of health institutions with mandatory fall prevention programs set within health care facilities. Care providers are key in identifying the risks of falls and in implementing strategic actions to prevent them. With the aim to better understand practices of fall prevention, we conduct...

The prevention of falls is an integral part of the safety culture of health institutions with mandatory fall prevention programs set within health care facilities. Care providers are key in identifying the risks of falls and in implementing strategic actions to prevent them. With the aim to better understand practices of fall prevention, we conduct...

The aim of this paper was to explore a select group of Spanish nurses’ views of spirituality and spiritual care. An exploratory design using both qualitative and quantitative methods was used in this study. The participants were nurses who were enrolled in a Master of Nursing Research. Data were collected via an open questionnaire. Furthermore, par...

Aim To understand the experience of family members of an older relative who has had a fall which required medical attention. Background There is abundant bibliography in caregiving, but little is known about the problems faced by caregivers and how family members cope when their older relative has a fall. Design Qualitative study that used a symb...

Resumen: Objetivo: Conocer y comprender las estrategias que llevan a cabo los familiares de personas con problemas mentales en las crisis de sus familiares enfermos. Diseño: Estudio cualitativo. Emplazamiento: Servicio de Salud Mental (SESCAM) y centros sociosanitarios de Castilla-La Mancha. Participantes: Veinticuatro familiares adultos que conviv...

Bibliography in qualitative research must come to live. The person that reads interprets. He/she is a reflective person that while reading is constructing a world view; creates analytic paths and theoretical avenues. Hence the value of bibliography does not rest on itself but on the act of reading. When to read and how to do it is going to be as im...

Aim: To review the evidence about the role of care providers in fall prevention in older adult's aged≥65 years, this includes their views, strategies and approaches on falls prevention and effectiveness of nursing interventions. Background: Some falls prevention programmes are successfully implemented and led by nurses and it is acknowledged the...

This historical study uses qualitative methods to analyze and describe the components of the material world of nursing care in Spain between 1855 and 1955 based on the analysis of eight nurse training manuals. A total of 360 objects and 45 procedures were recorded. Manual analysis was carried out concurrently with data collection based on the Groun...

The objective of this paper is to emphasize the importance of quality in the research process instead of its valuation afterwards, an issue the literature has given extensive attention to. In addition, it is a reflection on the debate about the quality of qualitative research and presents the assessment of quality as a situated practice. Reflexivit...

Objetivo: describir el mundo material para los cuidados de enfermería en España entre 1855 y 1955. Método: estudio histórico, con procedimientos de investigación cualitativa. Las fuentes de información fueron manuales dirigidos a la formación de profesionales dedicados al cuidado de los enfermos. Resultados: en los manuales revisados, el contexto,...

Analizar cualitativamente es una manera de pensar que se ha descrito como activa, interactiva, sistemática, organizada y sostenida en el tiempo. Consiste en un proceso, con frecuencia desordenado, en el que se hace una focalización progresiva de los temas que surgen en el estudio. Este proceso tiene unos procedimientos específicos a los métodos, ad...

El objetivo de este artículo es enfatizar la importancia de la calidad en el proceso de investigación y no en su valoración después de ella, algo a lo que la bibliografía se ha dedicado extensamente. Así mismo, reflexiona sobre el debate de calidad de la investigación cualitativa y muestra la valoración de la calidad como una práctica situada. La r...

Falls are the most prevalent and serious accident older people suffer in their homes and also, they are the main reason for their hospital admission. In a great part of the cases falls expose at risk elderly people's well-being and quality of life. A critical narrative literature review was undertaken to inform research in the area of falls in olde...

Abstract Falls are the most prevalent and serious accident older people suffer in their homes and also, they are the main reason for their hospital admission. In a great part of the cases falls expose at risk elderly people’s well-being and quality of life. A critical narrative literature review was undertaken to inform research in the area of fal...

Objetivo: Describir la experiencia del cuidado de las mujeres cuidadoras con procesos crónicos de salud que cuidan de un familiar dependiente. Diseño: Estudio cualitativo de teoría fundamentada constructivista. Emplazamiento: Estudio realizado en dos áreas de salud urbanas de la Comunidad de Madrid. Participantes: Treinta y nueve mujeres con enferm...

This study sought to recognize the active and symbolic role played by the objects from the material world for nursing care in Spain between 1855 and 1955. This was a historical study using procedures from founded theory. The information sources were eight handbooks for the formation of healthcare professionals published in Spain, during the period...

Qualitative analysis is being described as a way of thinking that is active, interactive, systematic, organized and sustained. It is a process, often disorganized, that gradually focuses on the emerging themes in the study. The process has specific and common procedures to the methods. In this paper we focus on memos one of the common procedures th...

In this editorial the author reflects on the different forms of decisions and choices about the design in qualitative research.

Uncover how women self-manage their own chronic illness while taking care of a dependent relative. International policies place special emphasis in promoting interventions addressed to control, prevent and care for people with chronic health conditions. Self-management is a crucial part of this care. Caregivers are more prone to have chronic illnes...

In this article attention is focused on access to data; a process that tends to be taken for granted and which in practice takes time and energy from the person who investigates. Access implies a process of contacting key people in institutions; negotiating with them, being invited to obtain data, achieving formal permission, and -; finally -; cons...

En este artículo se centra la atención en el acceso a los datos, un proceso que se suele dar por hecho y que en la práctica lleva tiempo y energía de quien investiga. El acceso implica un proceso que implica varios pasos: contactar con las personas clave en las instituciones, negociar con ellas, ser invitado para obtener los datos, lograr el permis...

To explore the strategies used by women caregivers to deal with their own chronic health conditions. Providing care has a negative impact on the physical and mental health of caregivers. When caregivers suffer chronic health problems, it increases the burden of caring, making them more vulnerable and less likely to look after their own health. Qual...

Older people are increasingly being cared for in the community across Europe. Dependent care in Spain largely remains a private issue involving family carers and migrant women from developing countries. Qualitative research on respite care has contributed to our understanding of respite as a subjective experience. Nonetheless, how care-givers relie...

El cuidado de enfermería tiene lugar en contextos histórica y materialmente variables. Al escenario conformado por objetos y el espacio físico para el cuidado de enfermería, se le denomina mundo material del cuidado. Es amplio y flexible, donde los objetos contienen información y pueden estudiarse desde la óptica de la cultura material y del mundo...

Aims and objectives. To understand the process of adaptation to dependency in older adults and their families. Background. Dependency and family care giving are attracting the attention of policymakers, service providers and researchers. Design. An interpretative synthesis of qualitative studies has been conducted. Methods. An extensive search with...

Primary care is the central pillar of health care. The increasingly complex health needs of the population and individual patients in a changing society can only be met by promoting interprofessional collaboration (IpC) within primary care teams. The aim of this Position Paper of the European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC) is to analyse how to impro...

Although past research has focused on the coping strategies of family caregivers, how immigrant caregivers cope with the demands of caregiving remains unknown. This study examines the strategies immigrant caregivers use to relieve the burden of care. A qualitative study based on 17 immigrant women caregivers using purposive and snowball sampling wa...

Tras una experiencia consolidada de investigación colaborativa, desarrollada desde la titulación de Trabajo Social, en el marco de las redes del ICE, un grupo de profesoras del Departamento de Trabajo Social y Servicios Sociales de la UA asumió la creación de un nuevo contexto de colaboración con otras universidades españolas y con profesorado de o...

El presente trabajo resume las actividades de la Red Interuniversitaria para la didáctica del Trabajo Social. Después del primer año de funcionamiento de la red interuniversitaria, en este curso se incorporó a la misma una profesora del Departamento de Psicología de la Salud de la Universidad de Alicante, experta en investigación cualitativa. La re...

The largest group of caregivers are women who live in situation of vulnerability and have little formal support. While research literature emphasises the burden of care and the relief of that burden, there are few studies that describe the context where this care takes place. The purpose of this qualitative study is to describe the context of demen...

Reflexivity is an English term that Spanish speaking people have to assign a technical meaning. Reflexivity expresses the conscience of researchers conscience and refers to their connection with the study's situation. It is a process by which researchers step back to critically exam the effect they have on the study and the impact of their interact...

This paper is a report of a study conducted to uncover the strategies that women caregivers of relatives with advanced dementia use to rest from care-giving. Respite consists of activities and situations that briefly take caregivers away from their care-giving responsibilities. Qualitative studies are focusing on respite as an outcome and are deepe...

The largest group of caregivers are women who live in situation of vulnerability and have little formal support. While research literature emphasises the burden of care and the relief of that burden, there are few studies that describe the context where this care takes place. The purpose of this qualitative study is to describe the context of demen...

Reflexivity is an English term that Spanish speaking people have to assign a technical meaning. Reflexivity expresses the conscience of researchers conscience and refers to their connection with the study's situation. It is a process by which researchers step back to critically exam the effect they have on the study and the impact of their interact...

Research is crucial for the development of the nursing discipline and qualitative research produces a kind of knowledge that permits generalizations relating to the phenomenon under study. The paper first focus on the discipline of nursing considered as a human science, oriented towards practice which its central phenomena is care. The disciplinary...

Dealing with dependency in the elderly and their families leads us to explore the life experience of those involved together with the processes of adaptation to this condition. A number of original studies have been published which, following a qualitative methodology, have dealt with both dimensions. Objectives: 1) To present a synthesis of the qu...

This paper is a report of a study conducted to identify the conditions that favour the relief of the burden of female caregivers of relatives with advanced dementia. Respite services are a response to caregivers' needs for rest. Although they are wanted and needed services, caregivers do not always have access to or use them. The need for a caregiv...

Objetivo: comprender la experiencia de descanso de las cuidadoras. Método: estudio cualitativo guiado por los procedimientos de la teoría fundamentada que forma parte de otro más amplio acerca del alivio del peso del cuidado en situaciones de vulnerabilidad. En el estudio participaron 17 cuidadoras de familiares con demencia avanzada que fueron sel...

Family care is an increasingly common phenomenon that is situated in the private domain and characterized as a feminine domain. Because of this, it is a pending issue in the public policy of some countries. Objetive: the paper explores the family care literature to highlight significant gaps in three issues: the nature of care, the burden of care a...

Objective To understand caregivers’ experience of rest.

To understand caregivers' experience of rest. We performed a qualitative study guided by grounded theory procedures. This study forms part of a wider study about burden relief in vulnerable situations. Seventeen women family caregivers of patients with advanced dementia were purposely sampled. Data were collected with 17 semi-structured interviews...

Caregivers' need for rest is well established in the literature and respite services are a response to this need. Nevertheless, although these services are the most needed, they are not well used and the several studies have inquiry its causes. Bibliography shows that using these services implies a process with stages and different variations and t...

Caregivers' need for rest is well established in the literature and respite services are a response to this need. Nevertheless, although these services are the most needed, they are not well used and the several studies have inquiry its causes. Bibliography shows that using these services implies a process with stages and different variations and t...

In Spain, care in dependency has traditionally fallen to family members but this situation is changing. The existence of a model based on the family's contribution used to enable dependent elders to remain at home; however, social changes such as the crisis of the informal caregiving system, which has been extensively discussed in the literature is...

In Spain, care in dependency has traditionally fallen to family members but this situation is changing. The existence of a model based on the family’s contribution used to enable dependent elders to remain at home; however, social changes —such as the crisis of the informal caregiving system, which has been extensively discussed in the literature—...

A qualitative research question reflects the researcher's paradigm and should be consistent with the proposed research method. A research question implies engaging in a process that defines the research area, subject, question, and place of the study. Because this process is interactive and changes during the course of the investigation, the beginn...

A qualitative research question reflects the researcher’s paradigm and should be consistent with the proposed research method. A research question implies engaging in a process that defines the research area, subject, question, and place of the study. Because this process is interactive and changes during the course of the investigation, the beginn...

Caregiving is a human activity with a professional component. Nevertheless it is regarded as the core of nursing. Thus, it is surprising to see how care giving is slipping away from nursing hands, sometimes into the hands of nursing auxiliaries and patient’s relatives or friends. This paper explores the nature of care giving and the phenomenon of f...

Caregiving is a human activity with a professional component. Nevertheless it is regarded as the core of nursing. Thus, it is surprising to see how care giving is slipping away from nursing hands, sometimes into the hands of nursing auxiliaries and patient¿s relatives or friends. This paper explores the nature of care giving and the phenomenon of f...

The study of home care of patients with advanced dementia illustrates how implicit contextual issues in the literature bias understanding about family care. Many of the studies are conducted in developed countries with an older population, high unemployment, nuclear family structure and with social and health care systems that support caregiving at...

Explicaban dos premios Nobel de literatura que para comprender el alma del caribe hay que cambiar de perspectiva (Vicent, 2005). En efecto, para comprender cualquier alma que no sea la conocida se hace necesario aprender a mirar la realidad de otro modo, aprender otra perspectiva. Max Weber marcó con su definición de comprensión Vesterhen, la difer...

El artículo comenta brevemente lo que es la teoría fundamentada, sus origines y características para dar paso a la presentación de dos investigaciones una sobre contexto de interacción: el embarazo en la adolescencia y otra sobre una experiencia subjetiva: la de ser paciente crónico; estos son asuntos esenciales para proporcionar unos cuidados cult...

Die hier vorgestellte Studie über die Hauspflege von Patienten und Patientinnen mit fortgeschrittener Demenz verdeutlicht, auf welche Weise implizite Kontextfaktoren zu einem Bias beim Verstehen der Hauspflege führen können: Die meisten vorliegenden Untersuchungen wurden in "1.-Welt-Ländern" durchgeführt, die sich auszeichnen durch einen hohen Ante...

IntroductionFamily caregiving is so common that it tends to go unnoticed and is viewed as a natural occurrence in family life. This article presents the category of Artisanship of Care that emerged during a qualitative study about family caregiving of patients with advanced dementia.Objective To identify caregivers’ strategies when providing care t...

In order to show the contribution of qualitative evidence to nursing practice and community health, there is a need to examine first what is meant by evidence and the relationship between research and practice. This paper argues that evidence is necessarily plural and that is not produced in a social or historical vacuum. The assumptions and expect...

In order to show the contribution of qualitative evidence to nursing practice and community health, there is a need to examine first what is meant by evidence and the relationship between research and practice. This paper argues that evidence is necessarily plural and that is not produced in a social or historical vacuum. The assumptions and expect...

Family caregiving is attracting more attention from policy makers and service providers, but managing a chronic condition in the home is a very complex activity that usually remains invisible to health care professionals. The study's purpose was to identify strategies family caregivers used in the home to care for their relatives who have dementia....

The environment has been found to be critical to the well-being of patients with dementia. The purpose of this study was to describe strategies Colombian caregivers used in the home to manage the care of relatives with dementia. Grounded theory techniques were used. Interviews were conducted in Medellín, Colombia, with 18 primary caregivers and 2 h...

To care for someone who suffers a chronic disease is a very complex activity which implies more than a strict medical aspect. The families affected, especially those from the lower income brackets, must confront difficult situations; for the majority of these families, enrolling the ill patient in a residential treatment center is not an option and...

Research is not a technology, it is not just about applying procedures. It implies creative acts and in qualitative research, also intuitive acts and involvement. The education of qualitative researchers is of crucial importance as the researcher is a bricoleur who selects materials, creates the study, in fact becomes a research instrument but not...

El artículo pretende proporcionar un escenario teórico que informe sobre las cuestiones relativas al cuidado familiar de pacientes con procesos crónicos. Primero examina el cuidado y a los cuidadores, luego explora el cuidado familiar en las condiciones crónicas y por último da cuenta de los estudios de investigación desarrollados en este campo. A...

AA 1226. Medellín, Colombia. Resumen. En el articulo se proponen tres estrategias para el desarrollo de la enfermería de la comunidad estas van dirigidas hacia la formación de los profesionales, hacia un ejercicio centrado en los grupos, naturales-que no medical izados-de la comunidad y hacia un ejercicio que active, estimule a la comunidad para qu...

La reflexividad convierte al investigador en actor de su estudio e instrumento de la indagación con que construye el diseño, como producto de las decisiones que toma. Esto se mostrará con una investigación sobre el cuidado familiar de pacientes con demencia avanzada. En la construcción de la pregunta me presento como sujeto situado ( Rosaldo, 1991...

This article critically reviews research into adolescent reproductive health, proposes a shift in focus in future research topics and, finally, presents the findings of a qualitative study on teenage pregnancy and analyzes its implications. The main argument is that in order to intervene in the field of prevention and to promote health among young...

The authors reveal the findings of an qualitative investigation on teenage pregnancy. Their data came from 21 semi-structured interviews with pregnant teenagers. The analysis of this data followed the procedures set forth in tested theories. This study reveals that the nature of the interplay a teenager who gets pregnant is that of a serious love a...

Findings from a qualitative research study of the context of adolescent pregnancy are presented. Participants were 21 pregnant adolescents from Medellín, Colombia, and nearby villages in the region. Data were collected by means of 21 qualitative interviews, and analysis followed grounded theory procedures. The study reveals that adolescent pregnanc...

To describe, from the patients' point of view, the process they follow from the moment they face a symptom until they seek medical help. Findings reported here are part of a qualitative study on the health of women from Colombia. Data were collected by semistructured interviews. The analysis was guided by grounded theory. When facing a symptom, wom...

Objetivo. Describir, desde el punto de vista de los pacientes, el proceso que siguen éstos para conseguir ayuda médica. Material y métodos. Los hallazgos aquí reportados forman parte de un estudio cualitativo sobre la salud de las mujeres realizado en Colombia. Los datos se recogieron por medio de entrevistas semiestructuradas: la teoría fundada gu...

Qualitative investigation in the health care field is faced with the relative problems of scientific knowledge production or epistemological questions, methodological procedures in qualitative investigations, and the utility and use of qualitative findings. These questions and others are discussed, in a general manner, in this article.

During a grounded theory study into health visiting the role of the relationship with clients was uncovered. It was found that they have a necessary enabling and mediating function for health visitors' work. Although the literature has highlighted the importance of the relationships in health visiting, the work involved in building them has been ta...

A grounded theory study was undertaken to gain insight into the processes underpinning health visiting. It was found that health visitors introduce their services into the client domain via a process constructed in this study as 'marketing'. This process involves different strategies to adjust the content, presentation and distribution of health vi...

Fringe work is a category developed in a grounded theory study into health visiting, accounting for a series of activities that health visitors were not expected or supposed to engage in. It is mainly a response to the deficiencies or gaps that health visitors encountered in both the health care and social systems, and operates by mobilising, devel...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Liverpool, 1992.

This paper summarizes the research study carried out in 1979 as part of an MSc. The study has two purposes: to analyse, in sociological terms, the nursing process development and to understand whether it can make a practical contribution to nursing. The concept of the nursing process emerged in the United States during the 1960s. Its content was sh...