The State of Nursing Research in Ghana: An Integrative Literature Review:

SAGE Open Nursing

Christmal D.Christmals¹ 

关键词: Ghana;    nursing research;    evidence-based practice;    sub-Saharan Africa;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2377960818783820

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

IntroductionFor nursing practice to be responsive to the needs of patients, it must be driven by contextual research evidence. To guide institutional and national nursing research policy, there is need to determine the quantity and quality of nursing research in Ghana.PurposeThe purpose of this integrative literature review was to quantify, critically evaluate, and describe nursing research publication in Ghana from January 2007 to December 2016 with regard to the country's research capacity to sustain evidence-based practice.ResultsSixty (60) out of 749 articles identified from EBSCOhost, ProQuest, PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, Wiley Online Library, and Google Scholar using three keywords (nursing, health, and Ghana) were included. A total of 60,778 human subjects were used in these studies. There were more quantitative (28) studies than qualitative (23) studies. These studies recorded 219 authors from 120 institutions, 55 of which were outside Ghana. Forty-five percent of the articles were published i...

【 授权许可】

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