ABSTRACT
Objective:
to promote reflection on bricolage and its application in health and nursing research.
Method:
to carry out a theoretical revision regarding bricolage in different literary bases like printed books and virtual means with access to event annals, articles, e-books, dissertations and theses.
Results:
the available literature is mostly found in the field of arts, while being scarce in the area of health, it provided initial understandings on the subject and instigated reflections on its use in nursing. The scriptural composition of this article involved information coming from the readings in conjunction with the experience of researchers on bricolage, describing its emergence in the field of fine arts to the use in the construction of scientific knowledge. The central reflection concerns the dispensability of predetermined methodological plans in health and nursing research, demonstrating that the bricolage method follows a construction while the research is carried out, that is to say, it does not propose a pre-established path.
Conclusion:
Bricoleur researchers need to find original ways to study the various phenomena involved in the health and nursing sectors. Bricolage provides the researcher with a method of his or her own, such as a research method, a multilateral solution, a contextualization and a complexity of reality.
DESCRIPTORS:
Research; Nursing research; Methodological research in nursing; Qualitative research; Methodology; Nursing; Health; Integrality in health