Korean J Women Health Nurs.  2007 Mar;13(1):51-59.

Analysis of Published Papers and their Keywords in the Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing (2003-2006)

• Kim JI
• Park SM
• Park HS
• Chung CW
• Ahn SH

Abstract

PURPOSE: This research was aimed to explore the major subjects and research theme and to classify characteristics of the key words in recent Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing. METHOD: With survey design, whole 103 published papers during 2003-2006 were analyzed with structured analysis form; research subjects, research methodology, data analysis, and key words of the published papers were classified and extracted. Various theme was founded and classified to 9 domains. RESULT: Most of the research subjects were women. Eighty-eight percent of papers conducted quantitative research; 83% chose convenience sampling and 69% used survey design, while experimental design was 29%. Key words were categorized 9 domains: demographic, health related concept, health behavior(intervention), sex-related, life event, disease, et al. Among 9 domains, health related concept, especially psycho-social topics such as depression, anxiety, stress were mostly studied and then physiologic topics such as labor pain, fatigue, and menstrual symptoms.
CONCLUSION
Most of the subjects were women and the most common domain studied was health related concepts in Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing. And key words and topics were on women's health issues. We can conclude that Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing has published by her own philosophy.

Keyword

Keyword; Research subjects; Topic

MeSH Terms

Anxiety
Depression
Fatigue
Female
Humans
Labor Pain
Nursing*
Philosophy
Pregnancy
Research Design
Research Subjects
Statistics as Topic
Women's Health*