Metaparadigma da “Nursology”: estudo de coocorrência de termos

Abstract

The metaparadigm is composed of four central concepts (human beings, global environment, planetary health, nursologists’activities) that identify the phenomena of the nursing discipline - “Nursology”, and appear as a common substrate for the scientific community. This study seeks to analyze the metaparadigm of “Nursology” based on the empirical corpus of the discipline. This is exploratory, descriptive, analytical, and reflective research. To this end, the co-occurrence analysis of terms (keywords/descriptors) was used as a bibliometric technique, using the VOSviewer® software. The search and selection of the empirical and documentary corpus were carried out in data sources: Portal Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde, Pubmed, WEB OF SCIENCE, SCOPUS, CINAHL with the keywords “metaparadigm” and “nursology” related by the Boolean operator OR. The sample consisted of 128 documents, published between 1977 and 2023. The results were presented in co-occurrence maps obtained with terms that co-occurred more than once and were composed of 49 terms distributed in nine groupings. The 10 terms with the highest number of occurrences, links, and link strength were: “planetary health”, “nursing education”, “global environment”, “nursing care”, “philosophy, nursing”, “science”, “nursing models”, “nursology”, “nursing research”, “nursing theory”. The four central concepts of the metaparadigm - human beings, global environment", planetary health, nursologists'activities were identified on the map circumscribed by the terms "nursing theory", "nursing research", "nursology", "nursing models", "philosophy, nursing”, “science” and “nursing care”. The map layout validates the metaparadigm interface in the “Nursology” knowledge structure. The intellectual structure of the “Nursology” metaparadigm, with its four central concepts, establishes an association with the constituent elements of the structure of the discipline’s scientific knowledge, both centrally and transversally.