Snow ball method in qualitative research with sheets and transexual women

Abstract

Objective: to report the experience of using snowball sampling as a possibility for nursing research with transvestites and transsexual women. Method: this is a descriptive study, of the experience report type, which describes the use of snowball sampling for the creation of networks of references from a qualitative research, held in 2018, which involved transvestites and transsexual women. Results: the snowball sampling allowed the study population to be found through its key informants, called Seeds, which facilitated the construction of a network of contacts, in addition to being mediators for scheduling meetings, culminating in the development of the stage data collection. Conclusion: this experience demonstrated the importance of using the snowball method in nursing research whose population to be studied lives with a condition of social invisibility or when the theme addresses issues of an intimate nature.