Research area | Specific research topics | Intra-area frequency n(%) | Overall percentage (%) |
Clinical practice (n = 281) | Medical-surgical | 110 (39.1%) | 17.7% |
Quality of care assessment | 72 (25.7%) | 11.6% | |
Home and palliative care, geriatric and psychiatric | 56 (19.9%) | 9.0% | |
Critical care | 22 (7.8%) | 3.5% | |
Mother - child and pediatric | 21 (7.5%) | 3.4% | |
Management (n = 157) | Organization systems | 85 (54.2%) | 13.7% |
Working environment | 41 (26.1%) | 6.7% | |
Nurses’ roles and responsibilities | 31 (19.7%) | 5.0% | |
Culture (n = 103) | Nurses’ perception | 73 (70.9%) | 11.7% |
Society’s perception | 30 (29.1%) | 4.8% | |
Education (n = 80) | Professional/academic | 59 (73.7%) | 9.5% |
Continuing education | 21 (26.3%) | 3.4% |