Trend Analysis of Studies on Nurses related to COVID-19 in Korea

Abstract

본 연구는 국내 간호사를 대상으로 COVID-19 관련한 연구의 동향을 파악하기 위한 것으로 근거기반 간호인력 관리를 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 시도되었다. 문헌고찰 연구로 국내 6개 데이터베이스를 기반으로‘간호’ AND ‘COVID or 코로나’를 검색어로 하고, 검색기간은 시작시점 제한 없이 2021년 6월 17일까지로 하였다, 총 182편의 자료 중 본 연구의 요건을 충족한 24편의 연구를 최종 분석하였다. 전체 논문의 83.3%가 질적 연구이었고, 대상자의 83.3%는 일반 간호사이었다. COVID-19 환자 간호를 경험한 간호사만을 연구 대상자로 하여 진행된 논문이 41%이었고, 9편(37.5%)의 연구만이 COVID-19 감염관리 교육을 받았는지 조사하였고 교육을 받은 간호사는 37.5%이었다. 양적 연구에서 가장 많이 다루어진 개념은 직무 스트레스(25.0%)와 피로(25.0%)였고, 다양한 윤리적 개념들이 다루어졌다. 예측요인을 규명하는 연구의 종속변수 중 가장 많은 개념은 간호의도이었다. 본 결과를 통해 간호사들의 COVID-19 관련 특성 조사가 미흡하였고 간호사들의 경험을 규명하기 위한 질적 연구가 더 필요함을 알 수 있었다.The purpose of this study was to explore and identify the trends in COVID-19 related studies with hospital nurses in South Korea, and to provide basic data for providing the evidence for nursing staff management on COVID-19. This study used a systematic review methodology to analyse the included studies. Six databases (RISS, KCI, KISS, e-article, DBpia and NAL) were searched and search terms were ‘nursing’ and (‘corona’ or ‘COVID’) in Korean language. The start time of the paper s publication year was not limited and included the entire paper published until 17 June 2021. 182 papers were screened. Based on inclusion criteria, this literature review included twenty four studies. 83.3% of research design were identified as quantitative research. 83.8% of the studies’ subjects were staff nurses. The study, in which all of the subjects participated in caring of COVID-19 patients, accounted for 41% of the papers. 37.5% of the studies dealt with the education of COVID-19 infection control. The most frequently dealt with concepts were job stress(25.0%) and fatigue(25.0%) in quantitative studies and many concepts related to nursing ethics tended to be addressed. Nursing intention has been most frequently dealt with dependent variable of predictive studies. The findings from this review was showed that the investigation of COVID-19 related characteristics with hospital nurses was insufficient and qualitative research will be needed to explore the living experiences of nurses.