J Korean Acad Nurs.  2017 Oct;47(5):600-612. 10.4040/jkan.2017.47.5.600.

A Comparison of Hospice Care Research Topics between Korea and Other Countries Using Text Network Analysis

• Park EJ
• Kim Y
• Park CS

• KMID: 2394255
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2017.47.5.600

Abstract

PURPOSE
This study aimed to identify and compare hospice care research topics between Korean and international nursing studies using text network analysis.
METHODS
The study was conducted in four steps: 1) collecting abstracts of relevant journal articles, 2) extracting and cleaning keywords (semantic morphemes) from the abstracts, 3) developing co-occurrence matrices and text-networks of keywords, and 4) analyzing network-related measures including degree centrality, closeness centrality, betweenness centrality, and clustering using the NetMiner program. Abstracts from 347 Korean and 1,926 international studies for the period of 1998-2016 were analyzed.
RESULTS
Between Korean and international studies, six of the most important core keywords-"hospice,""patient,""death,""RNs,""care," and "family"-were common, whereas "cancer" from Korean studies and "palliative care" from international studies ranked more highly. Keywords such as "attitude,""spirituality,""life,""effect," and "meaning" for Korean studies and "communication,""treatment,""USA," and "doctor" for international studies uniquely emerged as core keywords in recent studies (2011~2016). Five subtopic groups each were identified from Korean and international studies. Two common subtopics were "hospice palliative care and volunteers" and "cancer patients."
CONCLUSION
For a better quality of hospice care in Korea, it is recommended that nursing researchers focus on study topics of patients with non-cancer disease, children and family, communication, and pain and symptom management.

Keyword

Hospice care; Hospices; Palliative care; Semantics

MeSH Terms

Child
Hospice Care*
Hospices*
Humans
Korea*
Nursing
Nursing Research
Palliative Care
Semantics

Figure

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  Figure 1 Flow diagram of study selection and the process to network analysis.

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  Figure 2 Sociogram of the top 30 keywords based on degree-centrality in Korean and international nursing hospice care research.

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