A UTILIZAÇÃO DA BIBLIOMETRIA NA ANÁLISE DO REFERENTE CONFORTO

From the State of the Art, developed during the preparation of the thesis “Concept of comfort from the perspective of clients and nurses in hospital inpatient units,” it was possible to detect the precarious quantity of scientific products from the comfort as an object of research in Nursing. Given the above, this paper aims to identify ways to use the word comfort in the international and national scientific production. This is a bibliometric study of quantitative approach. Of the 535 abstracts found, 142 belonged to Nursing. The results show that there is an increased number of productions from the 90s, mainly in the Southeast of Brazil and most publications were in Portuguese. The word comfort is not recognized as a descriptor, so the descriptor that was most used by the authors in their studies was caring. It is concluded that there was a significant increase of scientific production in nursing.