Janete Ricas

Bio: Janete Ricas is an academic researcher from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. The author has contributed to research in topics: Asthma & Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 24 publications receiving 1673 citations.

Saturation sampling in qualitative health research: theoretical contributions

Abstract: The transparency and clarity of research reports, emphasizing the data collection stage, are considered important parameters for evaluating the scientific rigor of qualitative studies. The current paper aims to analyze the use of saturation sampling as a methodological concept, frequently employed in descriptions of qualitative studies in various areas of knowledge, particularly in the field of health care. We discuss and confront the following topics: definition of sampling closure by theoretical saturation; difficulties in the acceptance and operationalization of intentional samples (with examples), adequate size of the intentional sample, the significance of valuing what is repeated or the differences contained in the sample reports, inadequate uses of expressions containing the term saturation, and finally possible metaphors for understanding the concept.

Amostragem em pesquisas qualitativas: proposta de procedimentos para constatar saturação teórica

Abstract: A qualitative study's methodological transparency is considered a key factor for achieving its reliability and should be guaranteed by the researchers. Closing the sampling process by saturation is a common approach, but it is rarely made explicit in research reports. Qualitative researchers also commonly experience technical difficulties in objectively identifying saturation. This article proposes a method to organize sample closing by saturation, with a sequence of eight procedural steps for treating and analyzing data collected through open or semi-structured interviews or focus groups. The article aims to help researchers objectively explain how and when saturation occurred and to allow their readers to know how this process occurred.

Amostragem em pesquisas qualitativas: proposta de procedimentos para constatar saturação teórica Sampling in qualitative research: a proposal for procedures to detect theoretical saturation

Abstract: A qualitative study’s methodological transparen-cy is considered a key factor for achieving its reli-ability and should be guaranteed by the research-ers. Closing the sampling process by saturation is a common approach, but it is rarely made ex-plicit in research reports. Qualitative researchers also commonly experience technical difficulties in objectively identifying saturation. This article proposes a method to organize sample closing by saturation, with a sequence of eight procedural steps for treating and analyzing data collected through open or semi-structured interviews or focus groups. The article aims to help research-ers objectively explain how and when saturation occurred and to allow their readers to know how this process occurred.Sampling Studies; Sample Size; Qualitative Re-search; Methods Introducao Ser transparente quanto a tecnica de amostra-gem utilizada e uma atitude da dimensao etica que ajuda a evidenciar o rigor empregado em uma investigacao cientifica. Propomos aqui um modo de sistematizar e de expor o tratamento e analise de dados coletados em pesquisas qualita-tivas que utilizam as chamadas amostras fecha-das por saturacao teorica.“Fechar” a amostra significa definir o conjun-to que subsidiara a analise e interpretacao dos dados. Nas amostras nao-probabilisticas (inten-cionais), tal definicao e feita a partir da experien-cia do pesquisador no campo de pesquisa, numa empiria pautada em raciocinios instruidos por conhecimentos teoricos da relacao entre o objeto de estudo e o

A violência na infância como uma questão cultural

Abstract: Este texto discorre sobre como os diferentes padroes culturais e os costumes que vigoram em epocas variadas impoem as criancas realidades nem sempre justas. As autoras consideram que o modelo de familia e construido socialmente, a partir de determinadas crencas, que resultam em algumas situacoes que podem ser caracterizadas como violencia. Por fim, sugerem que a cultura deva ser partilhada em consonância com os diversos atores sociais e nao, ser preservada de forma arbitraria.

Evaluation of the psychometrics properties of the alarm distress baby scale among 122 Brazilian children.

Abstract: The Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB) aims at assessing infant withdrawal behavior. A previous validation study revealed acceptable reliability and validity indices. The present study investigated the psychometric properties of the scale in a larger sample from a culturally different population. Pediatricians evaluated the behavior of 122 infants, 2 and 19 months old, using the ADBB during routine physical consultation. Four investigators (two pediatricians and two nurses not specialized in pediatric care) examined video recordings of the evaluations. Results showed good interrater reliability coefficients among pediatricians and poor correlation when all professionals were grouped together. Test-retest reliability revealed good intraexaminer agreement (r = 0.91). The pediatricians' evaluation using the ADBB was compared with a psychiatric examination to investigate the scale's criterion validity. The cutoff point of 5 provided the best clinical validity (sensitivity of 79%, specificity of 81%). Results from construct validity showed that the scale had three dimensions. Comparison of the factor solution with other construct validity studies of the same instrument revealed similarities and differences. Results suggest that the ADBB may be a useful screening instrument to detect signs of psychiatric alterations related to withdrawal behavior in primary care services, and it is likely to provide consistent information.

The Principles and Practice of Medicine

Abstract: This work consists of two volumes, and extends over eighteen hundred closely printed pages. In the preface we are informed that the greater part was in manuscript when the pen dropped from the author's hand. The section on Diseases of the Heart was not completed, and that on Diseases of the Skin was not commenced. Dr Wilks has completed the former; while the editor, Dr Pye-Smith, has supplied the latter. The range of the work is the same as that of other treatises on the Principles and Practice of Medicine, while owing to its size greater freedom has necessarily been obtained for a more elaborate treatment of the varied subjects with which such a work deals, than could be possible in one of more restricted dimensions. But this is one of the few large works which one would gladly have had even fuller; its whole contents are of such a quality that curtailment in any section would have been a loss. It is quite impossible in the space at our disposal to critically review the special teaching of the various chapters, and yet without this there is difficulty in conveying anything like an accurate impression of what the book is. Even to class it as the best work

Amostragem em pesquisas qualitativas: proposta de procedimentos para constatar saturação teórica

Abstract: A qualitative study's methodological transparency is considered a key factor for achieving its reliability and should be guaranteed by the researchers. Closing the sampling process by saturation is a common approach, but it is rarely made explicit in research reports. Qualitative researchers also commonly experience technical difficulties in objectively identifying saturation. This article proposes a method to organize sample closing by saturation, with a sequence of eight procedural steps for treating and analyzing data collected through open or semi-structured interviews or focus groups. The article aims to help researchers objectively explain how and when saturation occurred and to allow their readers to know how this process occurred.

Amostragem e saturação em pesquisa qualitativa: consensos e controvérsias

Abstract: Resumo: Este ensaio sobre amostragem em pesquisa qualitativa e sobre o conceito de saturacao discute as seguintes questoes: em que medida as interlocucoes individuais que se obtem no campo podem ser entendidas como revelacoes do grupo e permitir inferencias sobre ele? Quais seriam as precondicoes para uma amostra suficiente e fidedigna? Num projeto, deve-se colocar previamente o numero de pessoas a serem entrevistadas e um tempo determinado para a observacao de campo? Quantas entrevistas e quanto tempo de observacao sao necessarios para um bom trabalho de campo? Quando se deve parar de buscar mais dados? As respostas sao balizadas na literatura e na experiencia pessoal da autora, mostrando que a quantificacao a priori foge a logica que preside os estudos qualitativos. Palavras-chave : Pesquisa qualitativa; Estudos qualitativos; Amostragem; Saturacao. Sampling and saturation in qualitative research: consensuses and controversies Abstract: This essay on sampling in qualitative research and on the concept of saturation discusses the following questions: To what extent individual interlocutions obtained in the field can be understood as revelations of the group and allow inferences about it? What would be the preconditions for a sufficient and reliable sample? In a project, should the number of people to be interviewed and the time for field observation be established previously? How many interviews and how much observation time are needed for a good fieldwork? When should the search for more data be discontinued? The responses are based on the specific literature and on the personal experience of the author, showing that, in principle, quantification escapes the logic of qualitative studies. Keywords: Qualitative research; Qualitative studies; Sampling; Saturation.