Child Health Nurs Res.  2015 Oct;21(4):347-354. 10.4094/chnr.2015.21.4.347.

Trend Analysis of Research Articles Published in Child Health Nursing Research 2014

• Cho KC
• Lee YE
• Oh SE
• Tak YR
• Chae SM
• Kim EJ
• Oh J
• Kim S
• Kim N
• Ahn Y

• KMID: 2169866
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4094/chnr.2015.21.4.347

Abstract

PURPOSE
This descriptive study was performed to explore trends in child health nursing research by analyzing the themes, contents and structure of articles published in 2014 in Child Health Nursing Research, the official journal of the Korean Academy of Child Health Nursing.
METHODS
Thirty-eight articles were reviewed using keywords, author (s), subjects, ethical considerations, designs, statistics involved, funding resources, and others.
RESULTS
Ten domains from 160 keywords were identified as follows, child related, psycho-social variable related, parents and family related, nursing and health related, and others. A mean of 2.9 authors per article was identified and 71% of the authors were academic- affiliated. Twenty-eight articles were human-participant related while 21 articles addressed both Institutional Review Board and written consent. Non-experimental design was the most commonly used method followed by experimental design, and qualitative design. The duration for acceptance was a mean of 89.1 days from submission with most articles requiring a second round of article review. Half of the articles were supported by grant organizations such as Korean National Research Foundation.
CONCLUSION
The findings of the analysis show an improvement in the scientific quality with a diversity of articles in Child Health Nursing Research.

Keyword

Child Health Nursing Research; Publication; Article

MeSH Terms

Child
Child Welfare*
Child*
Ethics Committees, Research
Financial Management
Financing, Organized
Humans
Nursing Research*
Nursing*
Parents
Publications
Research Design