Observational techniques and quality of life: an integrative review
Abstract
Today quality of life can be seen from several viewpoints. This quality emerges in situations lived and experienced by each individual. This phenomenon is connected to the circularity, interdependence and influence that the constituents of an area / region / environment have with each other. The objective was to describe the observational techniques that were used in nursing scientific production that addressed the quality of life issue. An integrative review of the literature was made. The corpus amounted to twelve articles. As a result, one can see, the emerging need for more research in nursing on quality of life using the technique of observation given that the subject is widely discussed nowadays in different spheresDownloads
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