Trends in Nursing Research on Infections: Semantic Network Analysis and Topic Modeling.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
; 18(13)2021 06 28.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1295818
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Many countries around the world are currently threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic, and nurses are facing increasing responsibilities and work demands related to infection control. To establish a developmental strategy for infection control, it is important to analyze, understand, or visualize the accumulated data gathered from research in the field of nursing.METHODS:
A total of 4854 articles published between 1978 and 2017 were retrieved from the Web of Science. Abstracts from these articles were extracted, and network analysis was conducted using the semantic network module.RESULTS:
'wound', 'injury', 'breast', "dressing", 'temperature', 'drainage', 'diabetes', 'abscess', and 'cleaning' were identified as the keywords with high values of degree centrality, betweenness centrality, and closeness centrality; hence, they were determined to be influential in the network. The major topics were 'PLWH' (people living with HIV), 'pregnancy', and 'STI' (sexually transmitted infection).CONCLUSIONS:
Diverse infection research has been conducted on the topics of blood-borne infections, sexually transmitted infections, respiratory infections, urinary tract infections, and bacterial infections. STIs (including HIV), pregnancy, and bacterial infections have been the focus of particularly intense research by nursing researchers. More research on viral infections, urinary tract infections, immune topic, and hospital-acquired infections will be needed.Keywords
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Nursing Research
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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HIV Infections
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Language:
English
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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