Purpose
The purpose of this study is to identify the characteristics of Korean nurses' research participation experiences; their resulting consent satisfaction; pressure to participate; satisfaction in participating; and the factors influencing research participation satisfaction. Methods A descriptive cross-sectional design was used. Data were collected using a questionnaire distributed to nurses who are employed at hospitals or higher medical institutions nationwide and have participated in nursing research at least once. 197 nurses participated in this study. 173 data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression. Results Senior nurses made the most participation requests (21.4%). The coercion to participate in the research (2.67±0.64) was lower than normal (3). However, the coercion level to participate in the study was significantly higher when notified by the institution or department (F=5.29, p<.001), the department head requested participation (F=5.17, p<.001), or senior nurses instructed other nurses to participate (F=7.96, p<.001). Satisfaction with informed consent (β=.55, p<.001) and coercion to participate in the research (F=93.16, p<.001) were significant variables influencing the satisfaction with research participation (R²=.52). Conclusion In order to protect the rights of nurses as research participants, it is necessary to improve researcher awareness and quality of nursing research, as well as provide ethical research environments for research participants.

Purpose
The aim of this study was to identify the knowledge structure of nursing research on heart failure in Korea.
Methods
Fifty-two studies published in Korea and 41 published abroad by domestic researches from 1988 to 2019, were included. Meaningful morphemes from the abstracts were extracted and refined, and co-occurrence matrix was generated. Using Phython 3.7 for edge weight, degree centrality, closeness centrality, and betweenness centrality and Gephi 0.9.2 for visualization, 571 keywords were analyzed.
Results
The core keywords were “patient”, “heart failure”, “symptom”, “function”, “quality of life”, “self-care”, and “intervention”. The sociogram identified “patient”, “heart failure”, and “symptom” as the largest node, and the edge weight between the keywords was the highest. From 1988 to 2019, keywords such as “patient”, “heart failure”, and “symptom” ranked the highest. Especially, from 2016 to 2019, “quality of life”, “NYHA”, and “medication” ranked lower, but “cognition”, “health literacy”, “behavior”, “self-efficacy”, “man”, “woman”, and “age” newly appeared or ranked higher.
Conclusion
It is recommended that Korean heart failure nursing researchers conduct researches related to self-care for symptom management of heart failure patients, especially on nursing interventions. In addition, nursing researchers should conduct studies on the cognition and health literacy related to self-care of the elderly patients with heart failure

Citations

• Images of Nurses Appeared in Media Reports Before and After Outbreak of COVID-19: Text Network Analysis and Topic Modeling
  Min Young Park, Seok Hee Jeong, Hee Sun Kim, Eun Jee Lee
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing.2022; 52(3): 291.     CrossRef

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.

Citations

• Effects of Nurse-Led Intervention Programs Based on Goal Attainment Theory: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  Bom-Mi Park
  Healthcare.2021; 9(6): 699.     CrossRef
• Essential Role of Theory in Nursing Research for Advancement of Nursing Science
  Soyoung Yu, Ju-Eun Song
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing.2021; 51(4): 391.     CrossRef
• Theoretical evaluation of Cox’s interaction model of client health behavior for health promotion in adult women
  Youlim Kim, Hyeonkyeong Lee, Gi Wook Ryu
  Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing.2020; 26(2): 120.     CrossRef
• Trend Analysis of Theory-based Research Published in Asian Oncology Nursing
  Hye-young Lee, Min-Kyeong Kim, Won-jin Seo, Min-jin Lee, Ye-rin Heo, Sanghee Kim
  Asian Oncology Nursing.2019; 19(1): 1.     CrossRef
• Trend Analysis of Research Articles Published in the Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing from 2013 to 2017
  Young Jin Lee, Seo Yun Kim, Saem Yi Kang, Yoo Jeong Kang, Lan Jin, Hee Yoen Jung, Hae Won Kim
  Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing.2018; 24(1): 90.     CrossRef
• Analysis of Theory-applied Research in the Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration (2007~2016)
  Hyunju Ji, Soyun Hong, Yi-Rang Jeong, Kyung Hee Lee
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2018; 24(2): 130.     CrossRef
• Trend Analysis of Research in the Journal of Korean Gerontological Nursing (2010~2015)
  Yerin Cha, Joeun Kwon, Sunhye Kwon, Kyung Hee Lee, Jiyun An
  Journal of Korean Gerontological Nursing.2017; 19(2): 92.     CrossRef

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to describe the approaches, methods and questions asked in intensive care unit studies published in Korean journals and the American Journal of Critical Care (AJCC) from 1992 to 2011. Only quantitative studies were reviewed.
METHODS
A total of 144 studies published in four Korean Journals and 521 studies published in American Journal of Critical Care (AJCC) were analyzed using descriptive statistics.
RESULTS
The most frequently used research design reported in Korean journals were surveys (83.5%), protocol development (10.1%), and randomized controlled trials (6.2%). In AJCC, the most frequently reported design was survey research (90.4%) and randomized controlled trials (16.1%). The most frequent nursing intervention reported in the AJCC was tube care (10.8%), and in Korean journals the intervention of suctioning (10.8%). In Korea, nurses were more likely to study instrument measurements (31.0%) and positioning (13.5%). In reported studies in the AJCC there were more reports on emotional support, exercise, and measurement research.
CONCLUSION
There is overlap in the type of studies between the two countries in term of study design, whereas the types of nursing problems studied differed in United States and Korea. The result suggests that there were gaps and those more diverse studies and physiological measurements are needed.

Citations

• Patterns of Symptoms and Symptom-related Factors of Patients in the Intensive Care Unit: A Secondary Data Analysis of Electronic Medical Records
  Moonjung Kwak, Yeon-Hwan Park
  Korean Journal of Adult Nursing.2024; 36(2): 146.     CrossRef
• Trends in Evidence-based Nursing Research in South Korea
  Seang Ryu, Sun Weon Yun, Yun Sook Kim
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration.2017; 23(4): 385.     CrossRef

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to explore the direction for development of the Korean Journal of Adult Nursing toward becoming an international journal through analysing the accepted and rejected papers during the last three years (2007-2009).
METHODS
Two hundred and ten accepted papers were analyzed focusing on research methodology and key words using descriptive statistics. In addition, rejected papers were reviewed to analyze their study designs and key words.
RESULTS
The proportion of quantitative research was 86.4% while the proportion of qualitative research was 9.5%. The majority of the qualitative research design was survey (71.8%). Sixty percent of the research had verbal consent and 32.7% had written consent from the participants. The prevailing data collection settings were hospitals (52.1%), and community (22.7%). The most frequently used research domain was health. It was noted that theoretical framework was rarely presented. The paper rejection rate was 31.5% and among the rejected paper, 75.3% was survey.
CONCLUSION
The results of this analysis suggest that published studies have been improved and diversified compared with the papers published before the year 2007. However, translation research, clinical trials by nurses, and more detailed evaluation process for ethics in research need to be facilitated.

PURPOSE
This study analyzes the trends of nursing researches about organ donation and transplantation, and recommends the direction of future nursing studies in Korea.
METHODS
Ninety-nine researches based upon organ donation and transplantation in Korea were analyzed by descriptive statistics.
RESULTS
Among them 58 papers were master's theses and 9 were doctoral dissertations. Articles about organ beneficiaries were seventy. The 47 articles among them were for kidney transplantation. By the types of research design, there were 73 quantitative studies, 19 qualitative studies, and 9 methodological studies. In correlation studies, the quality of life of subjects were evaluated the association with stress, social support, self-efficacy, and compliance. In experimental studies, the independent variables were self efficacy promotion exercise, steroid medication, educational programs regarding an organ transplantation and a brain death, Danjeon breathing exercise, and telephone counseling. The methods of qualitative studies were based on the grounded theory, phenomenology, interpretive phenomenology, and ethnography. The dominant concepts of qualitative researches were experiences of a decision-making of donors and of recipients for organ transplantation.
CONCLUSION
Descriptive surveys or correlation studies were predominant on the nursing research about organ transplantation. Qualitative studies were conducted to some extent. It is recommended to conduct clinically applicable interventional researches with the experimental design.

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to analyze the published articles in the Journal of Korean Academy of Adult Nursing from 2004 through 2006.
METHODS
Two hundreds and ten articles were analyzed focusing on research methodology and key words using descriptive statistics.
RESULTS
The proportion of quantitative research was 88.1%, while the proportion of qualitative research was 5.2%. The majority of the qualitative research design was survey(67.1%). Seventy-four percent of the research had verbal consent and 8% had written consent from the participants. Eight percent of the research provided conceptual framework. The prevailing data collection settings were hospitals(50.5%) and community(37.1%). For the data analysis, 95% used parametric analysis methods; descriptive statistics(26.2%), chi-square test(18.3%), t-test(18%) and ANOVA(17.4%). Key words were categorized into four nursing domain: human, health, nursing, and environment. The most frequently used domain was health.
CONCLUSION
The number of the published articles in the Journal of Korean Academy of Adult Nursing has been increased and quality has been improved compared with the articles published before the 2000 year. Varied research methodology and data analysis methods were utilized.

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to explore the utilization of the Transtheoretical Model(TTM) for Korean nursing studies on health behaviors and identify the strategies for improvement of further studies.
METHODS
From a main and seven branch journals on the Korean Society of Nursing Science, a total of 26 studies, which had been conducted based upon the TTM, were selected. The selected studies were analyzed from the September of 2006 to the February of 2007 by the criteria; name of journal, year of publication, health behavior, population, sampling, sample size, research design, instrument (translation process, reliability and validity), and statistical analysis.
RESULTS
TTM on the Korean nursing studies was mainly applied for smoking cessation or exercise with elderly or middle aged women. The research findings could not be generalized with the limitation of the use of non representative samples. The most frequently used research design was a cross-sectional survey. Some studies had a lack of reliable and valid instruments, so that the internal validity of the study findings may be threatened. Statistically related problems increased type I error and decreased power.
CONCLUSION
Korean nursing studies based on TTM can be the beginning stage in quality and quantity.

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study is to illuminate the relation between the aesthetics and qualitative nursing research, and especially to consider the aesthetical characteristics of phenomenological nursing research which may reflect works of art.
METHOD
Based on Heidegger, Merleau-ponty and Gadamer' philosophical aesthetics, this study shows how aesthetical thought can be is applied to artistic creation and aesthetical criticism in the phenomenological research of nursing.
RESULT
The result of aesthetical characteristics of phenomenological nursing research were as follows: 1) Poetical thought of the client's experience as the living is revealed as poetic expressions in forms of listening gazing, reflection and metaphor. 2) Literature works, paintings, poetry and fiction used as sources of lived-experience help to awaken insight into the essence of lived-experience. 3) Aesthetical evaluation of phenomenological product as art is related to the harmony as a whole, especially to the ability to do vicarious lived-experience of the client.
CONCLUSION
In order to produce creative phenomenological works in nursing research, two suggestions are made: aesthetical thought and poetic language in phenomenological reflective writing which enables researchers to transmit the essence of the lived-experience.