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Resumo Na opção por procedimentos pouco padronizados de recolha de informação, a análise critica dos métodos de pesquisa tendo em conta as particularidades do objeto de estudo é fundamental para o desenvolvimento de um processo de investigação rigoroso e produtivo. Este artigo pretende apresentar uma reflexão em torno das opções e das práticas metodológicas na aproximação à intimidade masculina, englobando as representações sociais dos homens sobre saúde e doença sexual, as suas experiências e a utilização dos cuidados de saúde. Recorrendo aos contributos de vários autores, destaca-se a investigação qualitativa como opção metodológica, a entrevista como técnica de recolha de dados, a seleção e o acesso aos participantes. Na abordagem acerca da entrevista incluem-se as possibilidades e dificuldades decorrentes da interação entre o investigador e os participantes, os desafios relativos às especificidades dos entrevistados e as implicações da identidade do investigador.

When opting to use non-standardized data collection procedures, the critical analysis of research methods considering the particularities of the object of study is essential to ensure a rigorous and productive research process. This article presents some reflections about methodological options and practices that can be used to approach male intimacy, considering men’s experiences with sexual health articulated with social representations and health care utilization. Drawing on the contributions of several authors, we focus on qualitative investigation, the use of interviews for data collection and the selection of and access to participants. Concerning interviews, we highlight the possibilities and challenges of investigator-participant interaction and issues related to the specificities of interviewees and the investigator’s identity.

IntroductionThe social representations about sexual health appear as different forms of social knowledge, when shared and developed, contributing to the construction of a common reality for a social set.The meaning about what is understood as sexual health shapes the actions and the practices of those who are most confronted with this reality. When we talk about social representations in sexual health, we are talking about a complex subject that is product of the interactions and understanding processes of social groups (health professionals, in this case nurses, and men themselves and the relationship between them). ObjectiveTo analyze nurses' narratives about men's sexual health. MethodThis is a descriptive study of qualitative approach, with data collection through an online focus group with 9 primary and differentiated health care nurses. The study obtained the approval from the Ethics Committee of ESEL, well as the informed consent from all participants. Data analysis was performed using the IRaMuTeQ-R interface software, using lexicographic analysis (hierarchical descent classification [CHD] and similarity analysis [AS]). Results and DiscussionThe CHD had a retention of 84.86% of the text corpus and from the analysis of the nurses' narratives. Four classes were emerged: entitled interaction between professionals and men, therapeutic itineraries, men's access to sexual health care and nurses' social representations of sexual health. The last class represents 30.1% of the textual data and 81 text segments, outstanding words such as will, subject and talk, and all of them with X 2 ranging from 15.99 to 40.21. Conclusions and Implications for Future ResearchThe nurses' narratives translate social representations that denounce women as privileged in matters such as health care, in which men are excluded. The concept of sexual health is strongly marked by social dynamics based on beliefs and taboos, which condition men's access to care and nurses' intervention.The training of health professionals in and for men's sexual health emerges from the nurses' discourse as an essential area of investment, involving men and aiming at the deconstruction of myths and stereotypes associated with sexuality.

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