Abstract
The article opens a methodological discussion on health research prompted by discomfort caused by dominant directrix for which there is a reality ready to be unveiled, and the expectation is that the researcher will access it. We describe a cultivation of an investigative process by means of the return of results of an epidemiological research in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 2010 and 2013. The return prioritized dialogue with the nursing teams, framed by the concept of restitution, from French Institutional Analysis. We discussion groups on findings and meetings on nursing workers’ health that brought together hospital managers and workers to agree measures on worker’s health field. Participation by all stakeholders changed manners of researching and intervening, on the basis that health practices are produced in encounters among subjects. Drawing on tools commonly used only to report fin-dings, we walked from the merely informative return to participative restitution. In shaping the return process collectively, the intention was to challenge researches such as those that consider a dichotomy between researchers and researched, since we consider that methodologies and instruments arise in process of co-engenderment. In that respect, it comes to transform health researchers ’ ethical concerns into a health researchers’ ethos, from the understanding that research happens in the collective, which includes researchers and researched in the production of a common.
workers´ health; psychology, restitution of results