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Comparison of Two Schema for Classifying Nursing Research
Author(s) -
Larson Elaine,
Dear Margaret,
Keitkemper Margaret M.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1991.tb00663.x
Subject(s) - standardization , nursing research , directory , reliability (semiconductor) , psychology , schema (genetic algorithms) , coding (social sciences) , nursing , medicine , computer science , information retrieval , mathematics , statistics , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , operating system
To examine trends in nursing research during the last five years of the 1980s and to test the reliability and validity of two taxonomic schemes to classify nursing research, 811 abstracts from three years of a national nursing research conference (Council of Nurse Researchers, 1983, 87, 89) were reviewed and classified independently by three investigators. Taxonomies were research topics as categorized in the Sigma Theta Tau International Directory of Nurse Researchers (STT) and the Classification of Nursing‐Related Dissertations (DISSER). More than half of abstracts addressed clinical topics, and clinical research topics increased significantly over time (p <.001). At least two of the three raters agreed on coding for 62.8 percent of abstracts with STT schemes, 70.9 percent with DISSER scheme (p <. 01). Additional testing and standardization of taxonomies for nursing research is needed to improve reliability and validity.