003 Op: Building Collaboration: the Process of Interdisciplinary Research on Prematurity between Neonatologists and Anthropologists

Introduction: This paper describes collaborative relationships between anthropologists and neonatologists engaged to research prematurity in a long term study to assess health outcomes related to preterm individuals born in 1990s in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Objective: To describe how collaboration took place, considering the discussion between anthropologists and neonatologists about qualitative methods and findings and the researchers dialogue within each discipline during different moments from research process. Design: Descriptive and qualitative study. Setting: Hospital Prof. Dr. J. P. Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Methods: Qualitative techniques on research process: participant observation, observation and interviews with patients (adolescents and youth born preterm, median age was 18.5±2.3 years old) and researchers (two female neonatologists). Results: At the first moment, neonatologist thought anthropological perspective as a “complement” of the “real” study made