Enferm Clin. 2017;27(5):308---313 www.elsevier.es/enfermeriaclinica SPECIAL ARTICLE Photoelicitation: A useful tool to investigate management of the vulnerability of homeless women  Cristina Oter-Quintana a,* , Teresa González-Gil a , Ángel Martín-García b , María Teresa Alcolea-Cosín a a Sección Departamental de Enfermería, Departamento de Cirugía, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain b Centro de Salud San Blas, Dirección Asistencial Sur, Gerencia Asistencial de Atención Primaria, Servicio Madrile˜ no de Salud, Parla, Madrid, Spain Received 16 January 2017; accepted 16 May 2017 Available online 4 October 2017 KEYWORDS Homeless; Qualitative research; Women; Photography; Narration; Photo-elicitation Abstract Aims: The proposal of the manuscript is to provide a methodological reflection on the use of photo-elicitation as a data gathering strategy to explore vulnerability management among homeless women. Methods: A grounded theory study was carried out. Photoelicitation was one of the data gath- ering techniques used between February 2015 and February 2017. Five women were selected through intentional sampling. All of them were over 18 years old and residents in 4 shelters within the Madrid Care for the Homeless network. Participants used disposable cameras or mobile phones to record their experiences living in the shelters or on the street through pho- tographs. An interview was conducted with each participant in order to explore the meaning of the photos after they were developed. Data analysis comprised, firstly, describing the obvi- ous content of the photos and, secondly, comparing it with the latent content provided by participants during the interviews. Results: Only 3 women finished the task. Through data analysis some theoretical proposals were discovered, which contributed to a deeper knowledge of some previously established categories and subcategories such as: ‘‘The good professionals’’, ‘‘The safe places in the street’’ and ‘‘The threats in the street’’. DOI of original article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enfcli.2017.05.003  Please cite this article as: Oter-Quintana C, González-Gil T, Martín-García Á, Alcolea-Cosín MT. Foto-elicitación: una herramienta útil para investigar la gestión de la vulnerabilidad de las mujeres sin hogar. Enferm Clin. 2017;27:308---313. * Corresponding author. E-mail address: cristina.oter@uam.es (C. Oter-Quintana). 2445-1479/© 2017 Elsevier Espa˜ na, S.L.U. All rights reserved.