, 이주현
, JooHyun Lee
연세대학교 간호대학ㆍ김모임 간호학 연구소
Mo-Im Kim Nursing Research Institute, College of Nursing, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
© 2026 Korean Society of Nursing Science
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Conflicts of Interest
No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.
Acknowledgements
None.
Funding
This study was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea grant funded by the Korean government (Ministry of Science and ICT) (No. RS-2024-00350329).
Data Sharing Statement
Please contact the corresponding author for data availability.
Supplementary Data
Supplementary data to this article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.25172.
Supplementary Table 1. Model diagnostic metrics for topic number selection
jkan-25172-Supplementary-Table-1.pdf
Supplementary Table 2. Term frequency and term frequency-inverse document frequency
jkan-25172-Supplementary-Table-2.pdf
Supplementary Table 3. Representative comments by topic
jkan-25172-Supplementary-Table-3.pdf
Supplementary Table 4. Effects of comment likes on topic prevalence
jkan-25172-Supplementary-Table-4.pdf
Supplementary Table 5. Topic correlation coefficients used for network and community analysis
jkan-25172-Supplementary-Table-5.pdf
Supplementary Figure 1. (A–D) Diagnostic values by number of topics (K=5 to 30).
jkan-25172-Supplementary-Figure-1.pdf
Supplementary Figure 2. (A–D) Diagnostic values by number of topics (K=13 to 17).
jkan-25172-Supplementary-Figure-2.pdf
Supplementary Figure 3. Topic quality and proportion (K=14).
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: TL, JHL. Data curation: JHL. Formal analysis: JHL. Funding acquisition: TL. Investigation: JHL. Methodology: JHL. Project administration: TL. Resources: TL. Software: JHL. Supervision: TL. Validation: JHL. Visualization: JHL. Writing - original draft: TL, JHL. Writing - review & editing: TL, JHL.
| Topic | Proportion (%) | Top words (high probability) | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7.2 | Strike, group, unions, resignation letter, trash, news, slave, name, representation, soup | Junk topic |
| 2 | 11.4 | Physician, nurse, nursing assistant, stake(밥그릇), personality, nurse association, qualification, ignore, chaos, skill | Disputes regarding the scope of practice among professionals |
| 3 | 7.9 | Nursing law, problem, compensation, law, opposition, improvement, treatment, operation, enactment, order | Debate surrounding enactment of Nursing Law |
| 4 | 3.2 | Money, profanity, situation, responsibility, opportunity, ability, water, army, CPR, nightingale | Professional identity confusion and unmet expected reward |
| 5 | 6.6 | Hospital, general hospital, license, professor, cost, health insurance, cancel, fees, local area, medical specialist | Healthcare payment system and workforce issues |
| 6 | 8.8 | Government, president, increase, medical school, fault, quota, policy, countermeasures, crisis, politics | Government-medical community conflict over medical school policy |
| 7 | 7.2 | Human, self, life, resignation, healthcare professional, COVID-19, mental, society, behavior, sacrifice | COVID-19 impact and professional sacrifice |
| 8 | 6.2 | Nursing, self, job, workforce, reality, continue, understand, environment, woman, workplace | Female nurses’ career interruptions and work-family conflict |
| 9 | 7.0 | Medical, Korea, system, healthcare, quality, level, overseas, management, accident, education | Korean healthcare system and privatization |
| 10 | 5.3 | Nurse, ward, night, medication, meal, emergency, one day, hospital, ICU, alone | Hospital nurses’ patient care workload |
| 11 | 4.7 | Patient, number, cure, site, fees, respect, head nurse, assign, family, oath | Physician care ethics and responsibilities |
| 12 | 12.8 | Overseas, nurse, video, cheer, hardship, employment, mind, resignation, leaving, university | International nursing migration and career pathways |
| 13 | 5.1 | Work, wage, clinical, new graduate, vacation, company, comparison, difference, intensity, burden | Inadequate compensation for professional workload |
| 14 | 3.6 | Career, specialty, support, recognition, house, industry, clinical, friend, recruitment, job change | Career transferability and development pathways |
| 15 | 3.0 | Time, duty, study, child, shift, empathy, reason, effort, mother, basic | Normalized exploitation and work-life imbalance |
COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation; ICU, intensive care unit.
