%0 Journal Article %T Field Diary: construction and utilization in scientific researches. Bibliographic analysis %A Adriana Roese %A Tatiana Engel Gerhardt %A Aline Corr¨ºa de Souza %A Marta Julia Marques Lopes %J Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing %D 2006 %I Fluminense Federal University %X This article emerged from the author¡¯s necessity of finding bibliography reference which were related to the construction and utilization of field diary as a complementary instrument in scientific researches. It had the objective of doing a bibliographic review referring to its utilization and describing experiences of the use of those methodological instruments. For that, it was developed a conceptual reference, an item dealing with the construction of a field diary and other a report on the experiences which the authors had with its use. We believe this study may help other researchers who search to develop researches with this data collector instrument. %K Qualitative research %U http://www.objnursing.uff.br/index.php/nursing/article/view/598