Korean J Adult Nurs.  2015 Oct;27(5):527-536. 10.7475/kjan.2015.27.5.527.

Trend Analysis of Research in the Korean Journal of Adult Nursing for 5 Years (2010~2014): Focused on Usage of Nursing Theories

• Han NK
• Kim S
• Kim MS
• Kim JG
• Kim CH
• Choi SH

• KMID: 2221731
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.7475/kjan.2015.27.5.527

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to analyze the trend of nursing theories by Korean Journal of Adult Nursing (KJAN) for the last five years and to provide future directions for improvement.
METHODS
The study analyzed data collected from 323 research papers published in KJAN between 2010~2014. Descriptive analysis was conducted with a focus on frequency and percentage for the quantitative analysis. Qualitative analysis was performed for the analysis of nursing theories.
RESULTS
As for research topics, the analysis results based on the meta-paradigm of nursing show that the most frequent factors of analysis were adult patients in the area of human beings, hospitals in the area of environment, depression, anxiety, and suicide in the area of health, and all the influential factors in the area of nursing. The analysis results of uses of nursing theories in the papers reveal that only 4(1.2%) out of total 323 papers used the nursing theories, which indicates that the linkage and utilization of nursing theories in the published papers for the last five years were poor.
CONCLUSION
We needs to make efforts at the society level to activate nursing theory utilization in research which is beloved to connect nursing practice, education, and research.

MeSH Terms

Adult*
Anxiety
Depression
Education
Humans
Nursing Research
Nursing Theory*
Nursing*
Suicide

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