Abstract

GRAU-MUNOZ, Arantxa; MUNOZ-RODRIGUEZ, David  and  MARCO, Elisabet. Nursing and social science research: implications for measurement and questionnaire design. Index Enferm [online]. 2023, vol.32, n.1, e12849.  Epub Sep 18, 2023. ISSN 1699-5988.  https://dx.doi.org/10.58807/indexenferm20234452.

Social sciences can contribute to the interdisciplinary nature of nursing research, offering to health sciences the possibility of studying subjects in relation to the social framework and bringing greater complexity to the empirical research. The present article deepens into some of the implications related with nursing research from social sciences. We focus on the aspects referred to the measurement and design of questionnaire. To do so, in addition to providing a theoretical discussion of this subject, we use the systematization of the process developed in the research project Language and Cultures of Health (CSO2014-61928-EXP). This review leads us to propose that interdisciplinarity, rather than limiting, means incorporating a view at the complex reality of health and, therefore, entails the need to be open to new theoretical and methodological approaches.

Keywords : Methodology of research; social science; Measurement; questionnaire design.