Hyunsook Shin; Kyung-Mi Sung; Seok Hee Jeong; Dae-Ran Kim

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Trends of Doctoral Dissertations in Nursing Science: Focused on Studies Submitted Since 2000: Hyunsook Shin, Kyung-Mi Sung, Seok Hee Jeong, Dae-Ran Kim; Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2008;38(1):74-82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2008.38.1.74
Published online: February 29, 2008

¹Assistant Professor, Collge of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University, East-West Nursing Research Institute, Seoul, Korea.

²Part-time Instructor, College of Nursing, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea.

³Full-time Instructor, Seoul Women's College of Nursing, Seoul, Korea.

⁴Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea.

Address reprint requests to: Kim, Dae-Ran. College of Nursing, Keimyung University, 194 Dongsan-dong, Jung-gu, Daegu 700-712, Korea. Tel: 82-53-250-7513, Fax: 82-53-252-6614, drkim@kmu.ac.kr

• Received: October 19, 2007 • Accepted: November 22, 2007

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Abstract

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of doctoral dissertations in nursing science submitted since 2000.
Methods
Three-hundred and five dissertations of six schools of nursing published from 2000 to 2006 in Korea were analyzed with the categories of philosophy, method, body of knowledge, research design, and nursing domain.
Results
In philosophy, 82% of all dissertations were identified as scientific realism, 15% were relativism, and 3% were practicism. Two-hundred and fifty dissertations (82%) were divided into a quantitative methodology and 55 dissertations (18%) were qualitative methodology. Specifically, 45% were experimental, 23% methodological, 13% survey and 17% qualitative designed researches. Prescriptive knowledge was created in 47% of dissertations, explanatory knowledge in 29%, and descriptive knowledge in 24%. Over 50% of all research was studied with a community-based population. In the nursing domain, dissertations of the practice domain were highest (48.2%).
Conclusion
Dissertations since 2000 were markedly different from the characteristics of the previous studies (1982-1999) in the increase of situation-related, prescriptive and community-based population studies. A picture of current nursing science identified in this study may provide a future guideline for the doctoral education for nursing.
Keywords: Nursing philosophy; Methodology; Knowledge; Research subject; Domain

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Table 1

Philosophical Orientation by School (N=305)

Table 2

Knowledge Type by School (N=305)

Table 3

Methodology by School (N=305)

Table 4

Linkage of Philosophical Orientation, Knowledge Type, and Methodology (N=305)

Quan=Quantitative; Qual=Qualitative; Des=Descriptive knowledge; Exp=Explanatory knowledge; Pre=Prescriptive knowledge.

Table 5

Research Subject (N=305)

Table 6

Nursing Domain (N=305)

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Trends of Doctoral Dissertations in Nursing Science: Focused on Studies Submitted Since 2000

Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing. 2008;38(1):74-82. Published online February 29, 2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2008.38.1.74

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Trends of Doctoral Dissertations in Nursing Science: Focused on Studies Submitted Since 2000

Table 1

Philosophical Orientation by School (N=305)

Table 2

Knowledge Type by School (N=305)

Table 3

Methodology by School (N=305)

Table 4

Linkage of Philosophical Orientation, Knowledge Type, and Methodology (N=305)

Quan=Quantitative; Qual=Qualitative; Des=Descriptive knowledge; Exp=Explanatory knowledge; Pre=Prescriptive knowledge.

Table 5

Research Subject (N=305)

Table 6

Nursing Domain (N=305)

Table 1 Philosophical Orientation by School (N=305)

Table 2 Knowledge Type by School (N=305)

Table 3 Methodology by School (N=305)

Table 4 Linkage of Philosophical Orientation, Knowledge Type, and Methodology (N=305)

Quan=Quantitative; Qual=Qualitative; Des=Descriptive knowledge; Exp=Explanatory knowledge; Pre=Prescriptive knowledge.