Research Publications In The Field Of Health: Omission Of Hypotheses And Presentation Of Common-sense Conclusions.

dc.creatorTurato, Egberto Ribeiro
dc.creatorMachado, Alexandre Cason
dc.creatorSilva, Douglas Fini
dc.creatorde Carvalho, Guilherme Machado
dc.creatorVerderosi, Natalia Reis
dc.creatorde Souza, Thiago Ferreira
dc.date2006-Jul
dc.date2015-11-27T13:05:59Z
dc.date2015-11-27T13:05:59Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-29T01:03:42Z
dc.date.available2018-03-29T01:03:42Z
dc.identifierSão Paulo Medical Journal = Revista Paulista De Medicina. v. 124, n. 4, p. 228-33, 2006-Jul.
dc.identifier1516-3180
dc.identifier
dc.identifierhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17086306
dc.identifierhttp://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/196999
dc.identifier17086306
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/1297232
dc.descriptionMedical literature should consist of knowledge applicable to professional education; nevertheless, the profusion of articles in databases provokes disquiet among students. The authors considered the premise that scientific production in the field of health follows a mechanical description of phenomena without the clarity of motivating questions. The aim was to interpret material from expert reports, applied by medical students to analyze articles from renowned journals. This research project was exploratory, searching for latent meanings regarding methodological problems in a sample of papers. It was performed in a Brazilian medical school. The sample was intentionally built, consisting of articles related to original research in the field of health, published over the previous five years. The results came from text content analysis, performed by a professor and his medical students. (1) Failure to state a hypothesis is an equivocal practice: articles did not show clarity of hypothesis to demonstrate that their authors had epistemological knowledge of the methods chosen. (2) There is a certain belief that in normal scientific practice, hypotheses are unnecessary: studies without explicit hypotheses led to suppositions that they merely repeat dominant models. (3) Presentation of common sense as scientific conclusions: research brings together what would have mobilized the researchers initially. Absence of formal hypotheses leaves scientific production vulnerable when put under epistemological discussion. Conclusions from scientific articles are often confounded with common-sense statements. Quantitative research is suggested, for studying the frequency of occurrence of these dubious methodological points.
dc.description124
dc.description228-33
dc.languageeng
dc.relationSão Paulo Medical Journal = Revista Paulista De Medicina
dc.relationSao Paulo Med J
dc.rightsaberto
dc.rights
dc.sourcePubMed
dc.subjectAbstracting And Indexing As Topic
dc.subjectBiomedical Research
dc.subjectBrazil
dc.subjectCurriculum
dc.subjectEducation, Medical, Undergraduate
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectPeriodicals As Topic
dc.subjectQualitative Research
dc.subjectResearch Design
dc.subjectStudents, Medical
dc.titleResearch Publications In The Field Of Health: Omission Of Hypotheses And Presentation Of Common-sense Conclusions.
dc.typeArtículos de revistas


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