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KMID : 0384920010100020142
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
2001 Volume.10 No. 2 p.142 ~ p.152
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The Research Trends of Papers in The Korean Journal of occupational Health Nursing
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Lim Kyung-Hee
Park Kyung-Min
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Abstract
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This study examined all the papers published in the Journal of Occupational Health Nursing from 1991 to May 2000 based on an objective frame of evaluation. The purpose of study is to prospect the trend of occupational nursing research and to provide an optimal direction for future occupational nursing service.
The results of total 94 studies were analyzed as follows.
1. The number of papers published in 1991- 1992, 1993-1995, 1996-1997 was not significantly increased. However, the number of papers were obviously increased after 1998.
2. In the design of research, survey studies were definitely dominant. But, they are gradually decreasing and experimental studies are increasing.
3. In the fields of research, health problems, health risk factors and health awareness were higher than others. Occupational health nurse’s task and job satisfaction were main areas of research until the middle of 1990’s. However, after then, not only health problem, risk factor and awareness of health but also health promotion and preventive health behavior are increasing in the research areas.
4. The collaborative researches have gradually increased and the type of author has been varied. The number of researches completed by funds was undertaking only 3 among the total 94.
5. In the research analysis, except for case studies and literature studies, the research subjects have been shifted from the occupational health nurses to the industrial workers, and more diversified. The sample size has been enlarged and the major place of the study is industry. The questionnaire was used in many studies as instrument for data collection and measurement. But, complementary methods of diverse instruments have been increased. The method of data analysis has obviously showed some changes moving from descriptive statistics to inferential and advanced statistics.
6. The ways of nursing intervention have prominently diversified in experimental studies. The contents of case studies were mainly focused on the health management programs and activities in industry. The research concepts and the contents of literature study were also changed progressively in various way.
Based on the above findings, conclusions are extended to the following discussion:
Since the Korean Academic Society of Occupational Health Nursing was instituted in 1990, the researches of occupational health nursing have shown an acute methodological development in both quantity and quality. However, they were considered still in the lack of research verifying the effects of nursing intervention program. Also, the development of nursing intervention and nursing theory lacked. Therefore, more empirical researches are strongly needed to utilize the field of occupational health nursing in Korea Researchers are also encouraged to exert more efforts to get research funds.
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KEYWORD
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Occupational Health Nursing, Research Trend
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