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0044/2025 - Mental Health Clothesline and Dialogue Circles: active techniques in qualitative research in health and education
Varal da Saúde Mental e Rodas de Diálogo: técnicas e métodos ativos na investigação qualitativa em saúde e educação

Author:

• Rosangela Minardi Mitre Cotta - Cotta, RMM - <rmmitre@ufv.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5331-9734

Co-author(s):

• Siomara Aparecida da Silva - Silva, S.A - <siomarasilva@ufop.edu.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7590-9129
• Adriana Maria de Figueiredo - Figueiredo, A.M - <adrianamfigueiredo@ufop.edu.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9222-6397
• Emily de Souza Ferreira - Ferreira, E.S - <emily.s.ferreira@ufv.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4451-0611
• Henriqueta Ilda Verganista Martins Fernandes - Fernandes, H.I.V.M - <ildafernandes@esenf.pt>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8440-3936
• Ramón López Martín - Martín, R.L - <ramon.lopez@uv.es>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9450-8910
• Aisllan Diego de Assis - Assis, A.D - <aisllanassis@ufop.edu.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1727-4211


Abstract:

This article aims to present and describe the techniques of the mental health clothesline and the dialogue circle, as participatory, dialogical and meaningful strategies of qualitative research in health and education. Considering the importance of allowing the inclusion of diversity and plurality of voices and experiences, active methods represent a broad and contextualized approach for this purpose. This is a qualitative study, using two active and participatory research techniques on the mental health of educators in a school community. The “Mental Health Clothesline” aims to understand negative and positive experiences related to people's mental health. The “Dialogue Circles” are used as formative techniques, promoting the expression of feelings, thoughts and behaviors related to health and education. The main cores of meaning related to the negative experiences of educators were the experiences of illness and conflicts at work and personal life. The positive ones were personal and professional relationships and hope. The dialogic experience led participants to work on meaningsa deeper focus on mental health, producing sensitive knowledge with acceptance.

Keywords:

Problem-Based Learning; Mental Health, Schools, Education, Qualitative Research.

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Cotta, RMM, Silva, S.A, Figueiredo, A.M, Ferreira, E.S, Fernandes, H.I.V.M, Martín, R.L, Assis, A.D. Mental Health Clothesline and Dialogue Circles: active techniques in qualitative research in health and education. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2025/Feb). [Citado em 05/12/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/mental-health-clothesline-and-dialogue-circles-active-techniques-in-qualitative-research-in-health-and-education/19520



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