El Diario de Cuidados. Una estrategia metodológica de investigación cualitativa en contextos de distanciamiento social

Abstract

This article reflects on the difficulties of facing field work as we knew it before the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to protect risk groups by guaranteeing health recommendations for social distancing to prevent infections. The process of design and application of a Care Diary is described as an innovative methodological tool in the field of qualitative research on the care of the elderly. It is a data collection instrument that seeks to recover first-person narratives through the self-administered writing of a diary, creating a means of access to the experiences, feelings, opinions and expectations about the care of this population group. It concludes by analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the instrument and proposes methodological triangulation as a complementary strategy.