Kuzey Kıbrıs’ta Kadın Sağlığı ile İlgili Yapılmış Hemşirelikte Lisansüstü Tezlerin Özellikleri: Bir İçerik Analizi Çalışması

Abstract

There are health criterion data gaps indicating the status of women’s health in North Cyprus and therefore, this situation affects adversely the planning of women’s health services. Insufficient quality and quantity of research studies in the field of nursing is a significant problem in the way of scientification of nursing. Considering all of these problems, it is deemed important to examine nursing research studies conducted on women’s health in the country. The aim of this article is to investigate the postgraduate dissertation studies conducted regarding the women’s health at one of the universities in North Cyprus in Nursing. The research has been conducted by using document analysis and content analysis tools, which are included in the qualitative research methods. The universe of this research consists of postgraduate dissertations in English and Turkish languages (93 theses) written between 2010 and 2020 in the Institute of Health Sciences, Nursing Program, at a university in North Cyprus. The sample of this research also consists of 21 postgraduate dissertation studies concerning women’s health. Data collection technique through documents/publications has been used in the data collection process. Dissertations indexed in databases of library of the university have been scanned and the data has been collected by the way of publication classification form generated by researchers. This form has been classified into six categories: research strategies/methods, topic titles, data collection techniques, sampling technique, organization type, and visual content type. It has been determined in the study that the majority of the dissertations are master’s theses with 81%, 57.1% of them are descriptive studies, only one experimental study was done, and 66.7% of them have the visual content. It has also been ascertained that most of the studies have been written regarding the improvement of women’s health. In the study, it has been found out that there are errors and deficiencies in data collection technique and sampling technique type statements on dissertations. Also, the use of scale has been found to be insufficient with the percentage of 33.3%. It is recommended to increase the number of multifaceted Nursing research devoted to the protection, development, improvement and maintenance of women's health in the country, to convert these studies into publications, to use theories/models in doctoral dissertations in Nursing, and to consider the deficiencies observed in the methods and techniques of the studies for future studies.