The use of the Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Interview as a strategy to facilitate help-seeking among women living in peripheral neighborhoods

• Grant number: 25/00175-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: July 01, 2025
• End date: April 30, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Nursing - Psychiatric Nursing
• Principal Investigator: Jacqueline de Souza
• Grantee: Janaína Cristina Pasquini de Almeida
• Host Institution: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto (EERP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 23/16689-0 - Sociocultural factors that influence help-seeking related to mental suffering among Brazilian women living in peripheral neighborhoods, AP.R

Abstract

This project aims to analyze the use of the Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Interview (CENI) as a facilitating strategy to clarify the demand for mental health and promote help-seeking in a sample of women residing in peripheral neighborhoods of Ribeirão Preto. The research problem lies in the difficulty, particularly among groups in situations of social vulnerability, in identifying their psychosocial needs. Without clarity on what they truly need, it becomes difficult to determine which resources would be helpful, thus stagnating the help-seeking process. The CENI is an approach developed by a North American author that, through narrative and visual techniques, allows participants to narrate their own journey, including the traumas and/or suffering experienced throughout their lives. In this way, participants have the opportunity to reflect on their suffering and ways to face it, including how to ask for help and how they would like to receive it. Data will be collected at two time points using the Self-Report Questionnaire 20 (SRQ-20), the CENI, three questions from the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI), and three evaluative questions. Content analysis will be used for the CENI, and a descriptive analysis will be conducted on the data from the CFI questions and the participants' opinions on the use of CENI, considering the psychosocial information obtained at baseline and follow-up. Additionally, a detailed analysis will be conducted to identify the symptoms present and absent based on the SRQ-20 scale results. This research is linked to an ongoing project approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the School of Nursing at Ribeirão Preto and funded by FAPESP in the Regular modality. (AU)