Nowadays, researchers are looking for methods according to the epistemologicalbasis and systematic reasoning and that lead to knowledgebroadening for the field. Thus, researchers began changing rules andmethodological principles. Interpretive Description (ID) is a qualitativeresearch method that assesses the clinical phenomena related to the field.Themes and patterns are extracted from mental perceptions and createa description that lead to clinical understanding(1). This method was presentedby Sally Thorne et al. in 1997, and is one of the inductive analysismethods helping with the understanding of clinical phenomena. In fact, itis a method moving beyond the dominant approaches in nursing research,being an evolution in the qualitative research method in the nursing field(2).
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