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Park and Park: Identification of Knowledge Structure of Pain Management Nursing Research Applying Text Network Analysis

Abstract

Purpose

This study aimed to explore and compare the knowledge structure of pain management nursing research, between Korea and other countries, applying a text network analysis.

Methods

321 Korean and 6,685 international study abstracts of pain management, published from 2004 to 2017, were collected. Keywords and meaningful morphemes from the abstracts were analyzed and refined, and their co-occurrence matrix was generated. Two networks of 140 and 424 keywords, respectively, of domestic and international studies were analyzed using NetMiner 4.3 software for degree centrality, closeness centrality, betweenness centrality, and eigenvector community analysis.

Results

In both Korean and international studies, the most important, core-keywords were “pain,” “patient,” “pain management,” “registered nurses,” “care,” “cancer,” “need,” “analgesia,” “assessment,” and “surgery.” While some keywords like “education,” “knowledge,” and “patient-controlled analgesia” found to be important in Korean studies; “treatment,” “hospice palliative care,” and “children” were critical keywords in international studies. Three common sub-topic groups found in Korean and international studies were “pain and accompanying symptoms,” “target groups of pain management,” and “RNs’ performance of pain management.” It is only in recent years (2016~17), that keywords such as “performance,” “attitude,” “depression,” and “sleep” have become more important in Korean studies than, while keywords such as “assessment,” “intervention,” “analgesia,” and “chronic pain” have become important in international studies.

Conclusion

It is suggested that Korean pain-management researchers should expand their concerns to children and adolescents, the elderly, patients with chronic pain, patients in diverse healthcare settings, and patients’ use of opioid analgesia. Moreover, researchers need to approach pain-management with a quality of life perspective rather than a mere focus on individual symptoms.

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Figure 1.
The study process.
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Figure 2.
Sociogram as the knowledge structure of pain management nursing research. (A) Text-network of Korean studies. (B) Text-network of international studies.
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Table 1.
Core-topic Keywords of the Pain Management Nursing Research
Rank Korean research International research
Degree centrality Closeness centrality Node betweenness centrality Degree centrality Closeness centrality Node betweenness centrality
1 pain pain pain patient patient patient
2 patient patient patient pain pain pain
3 pain management pain management pain management care care care
4 RNs education cancer RNs RNs RNs
5 education RNs development assessment pain management treatment
6 knowledge postoperative RNs pain management assessment hospital
7 PCA management education treatment treatment pain management
8 development knowledge program hospice palliative care children symptom
9 program control group PCA children management opioid analgesia
10 management assessment sleep symptom hospice palliative care knowledge
11 care surgery nausea measurement need analgesia
12 cancer program knowledge need measurement United States
13 score score need management intervention assessment
14 postoperative care care intervention clinic female
15 need attitude management clinic symptom health
16 attitude need postoperative cancer cancer technique
17 symptom analgesia analgesia analgesia nursing care interview
18 performance health guideline nursing care female infant
19 depression PCA control group hospital hospital gender
20 control group satisfaction health health analgesia neuropathic pain
21 assessment cancer score development surgery history
22 analgesia symptom EBP opioid analgesia opioid analgesia search
23 surgery sleep attitude female health therapy
24 sleep nausea cancer pain support development cancer
25 satisfaction guideline symptom surgery evaluation hospice palliative care

Italic letters are keywords that appear only in that centrality measure. EBP=Evidence based practice; PCA=Patient controlled analgesia; RNs=Registered nurses.

Table 2.
The Subtopic Groups of Pain Management Nursing Research
Korean research
1. Pain and accompanying symptoms
  pain, anxiety, intensity, pain relief, scale, depression, fatigue, neonate, measurement, dysmenorrhea, health, sleep, quality, children, intervention, surgery, nausea, vomiting, guideline, EBP
 2. Target groups of pain management
  patient, cancer, family, care, arthritis, caregiver, PCA, postoperative, QOL, dementia, education, need, preoperative, intravenous, breast, lung, survival
 3. RNs’ performance of pain management
  pain management, knowledge, performance, RNs, barrier, satisfaction, attitude, development, strategy, protocol, hospital, physicians, hospice palliative care, cancer pain, analgesia
 4. Symptom management program
  symptom, management, program, nursing care, assessment, score
International research
  1. Pain and accompanying symptoms
1) pain, relationship, self-report, abdominal, chest, perineal, complex, ability, stress, discomfort, non-verbal, question, life, burn, self-efficacy, subjective, syndrome, vital signs, dimension, joint, dysmenorrhea
  2) symptom, distress, depression, cluster, scale, QOL, fatigue, measurement, score, intensity, anxiety, frequency, improvement, occurrence, gastrointestinal, sleep, respiratory, screen, NRS, VAS, comfort
  3) physical, function, psychologic, emotion, social, disability, well-being, spiritual, physiology, behavior, cognition, impairment, bowel
  4) validity, reliability, version, instrument, questionnaire, China
  5) nausea, vomiting
  6) pain score, reduction
 2. Target groups of pain management
  1) patient, hospitalize, carer, orthopaedic, survival, cardiac, ventilation, heart failure, quality of care, metastasis, fibromyalgia, follow-up, agreement, rehabilitation, teaching, convenience sample, colonoscopy, advocacy, kidney, brain, audit
  2) female, male, breast, gender, ethnic, race, participant, cesarian section, interview, semistructured, telephone
  3) chronic pain, back pain, non-cancer pain, suffer, wound, healing, individual, lung, disease, head and neck cancer
  4) hip, fracture, knee, arthritis
  5) leg, ulcer, venous
  6) substance, abuse, history
  7) neuropathic pain, peripheral, nerve
 3. RNs’ performance of pain management
  1) pain management, strategy, intervention, education, guideline, nursing care, quality, program, clinic, plan, implementation, evaluation, EBP, documentation, development, research, multidisciplinary approach, management, factor, training
  2) RNs, knowledge, assessment, attitude, perception, parent, survey, performance, satisfaction, barrier, researcher, belief, worker, student, consultation, ethics, clinician, gap, translation, confidence
  3) family, caregiver, support, hospice palliative care, health, healthcare professionals, physicians, need, information, communication, team, person, HIV/AIDS, policy, healthcare, system, advanced cancer
 4. Diverse care settings
  1) care, end-of-life, setting, older adult, facility, midwife, holistic, community, cost-effective, acute pain, preference, utilization, pathway, perspective, practitioner, burden, preoperative, decision-making, acute care
  2) hospital, admission, unit, discharge, surgery, ward, emergency room, public, ICU, Australia, private, medical, referral, academic, anesthesia, maternity, neonate
  3) children, cancer, adolescent, adult, population, illness, vulnerable, SCD, Taiwan
  4) home, resident, death, staff, nursing home, dementia
  5) science, web-based, United-States, African
  6) infant, mother, heel lancing
 5. Analgesia and other forms of treatment
  1) opioid analgesia, dosage, administration, oral, medication, side effect, drug, fentanyl, long-term care, oxycodone, sucrose
  2) treatment, diagnose, modality, protocol, standard, acupuncture, placebo, prevention, CAM, benefit, regimen
  3) massage, therapy, hand, technique, relaxation, imagery, music therapy, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, reiki
  4) analgesia, PCA, epidural, consumption, sedation, intravenous, cancer pain, PRN analgesia, infusion, acetaminophen
  5) pain relief, labor, non-pharmacologic, postoperative, pharmacologic, delirium

CAM=Complementary alternative medicine; EBP=Evidence based practice; ICU=Intensive care unit; NRS=Numeric rating scale; PCA=Patient controlled analgesia; PRN=Pro re nata; QOL=Quality of life; RNs=Registered nurses; SCD=Sickle cell disease; VAS=Visual analogue scale.

Based on the link strength, only the top 20 keywords were presented.

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