A busca de informação em equipes multidisciplinares: estudo de caso de uma instituição psiquiátrica

Abstract

This study was developed at the Instituto Raul Soares - IRS, of the Fundação hospitalar do Estado de Minas Gerais- FHEMIG and concerns to the behavior of information seeking of the members of the clinician team,composed by physicians, psychiatrists, nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists,social workes and others kinds of physicians. The aim of the study was to determine how the professionals of the IRS seek significant informations for yours jobs. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire self-administered containing questions of multiple choice and opened questions.The questionnaire was structured to make possible the data acquisition for a) the identification of the information sources used by the researchers; b) the characterization of the information flow within IRS and c) the indetification of the equal and specific characterisdtics of the behavior of the professionals of each specialty, in relation to the information seeking. The results show that a) there ins' t a solid practice that covers specialists of distinct areas: b) there ins' t an information exchange that make possible the characterization of the information flow within IRS and c) some specialties show a peculiar behavior un relation to the ways for identify and obtain informations. The importance of the organization (or reorganization) of information services that take into consideration the implications of multidisciplinary works in the traditional environment of the discipline-centered libraries also is considered.