Papers’ internal quality/Journal | AIR n (%) | ProfInf n (%) | L’Infermiere n (%) | Nursing Oggi n (%) | Overall n (%) |
Study design as defined by the authors | |||||
Not stated | 76 (46.9%) | 101 (35.7%) | 41 (35.9%) | 48 (77.4%) | 266 (42.8%) |
Pertinent/appropriate | 39 (24.1%) | 104 (36.7%) | 37 (32.5%) | 8 (12.9%) | 188 (30.3%) |
Generic or not clearly defined | 35 (21.6%) | 48 (17.0%) | 31 (27.2%) | 0 (0%) | 114 (18.4%) |
Not consistent | 12 (7.4%) | 30 (10.6%) | 5 (4.4%) | 6 (9.7%) | 53 (8.5%) |
Framework | |||||
Absent | 139 (85.8%) | 258 (91.2%) | 107 (93.9%) | 62 (100.0%) | 566 (91.1%) |
Present | 23 (14.2%) | 25 (8.8%) | 7 (6.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 55 (8.9%) |
Background | |||||
Present | 151 (93.2%) | 267 (94.3%) | 109 (95.6%) | 35 (56.5%) | 562 (90.5%) |
Absent | 11 (6.8%) | 16 (5.7%) | 5 (4.4%) | 27 (43.5%) | 59 (9.5%) |
Discussion | |||||
Consistent with results | 119 (73.5%) | 189 (66.8%) | 80 (66.0%) | 15 (24.2%) | 403 (64.9%) |
Not consistent with results | 35 (21.6%) | 54 (19.1%) | 15 (13.1%) | 17 (27.4%) | 121 (19.5%) |
No discussion | 8 (4.9%) | 40 (14.1%) | 19 (16.7%) | 30 (48.4%) | 97 (15.6%) |
Conclusions | |||||
Consistent with discussion | 84 (51.8%) | 223 (78.8%) | 88 (77.2%) | 48 (77.4%) | 443 (71.3%) |
No conclusions | 40 (24.7%) | 36 (12.7%) | 5 (4.4%) | 10 (16.1%) | 91 (14.7%) |
Not consistent with discussion | 38 (23.5%) | 24 (8.5%) | 21 (18.4%) | 4 (6.5%) | 87 (14.0%) |
Limitations | |||||
Not acknowledged | 111 (68.5%) | 114 (40.3%) | 68 (59.6%) | 29 (46.8%) | 322 (51.8%) |
Acknowledged | 51 (31.5%) | 169 (59.7%) | 46 (40.4%) | 33 (53.2%) | 299 (48.2%) |
Language | |||||
Informal | 101 (62.4%) | 210 (74.2%) | 84 (73.7%) | 56 (90.3%) | 451 (72.6%) |
Scientific | 61 (37.6%) | 73 (25.8%) | 30 (26.3%) | 6 (9.7%) | 170 (27.4%) |
Figures | |||||
No figures | 144 (88.9%) | 227 (80.2%) | 104 (91.3%) | 54 (87.1%) | 529 (85.2%) |
Mentioned and discussed | 15 (9.3%) | 52 (18.4%) | 8 (7.0%) | 7 (11.3%) | 82 (13.2%) |
Only mentioned | 3 (1.8%) | 2 (0.7%) | 2 (1.7%) | 0 (0%) | 7 (1.1%) |
Neither mentioned nor discussed | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (0.7%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (1.6%) | 3 (0.5%) |
Graphs | |||||
No graphs | 111 (68.5%) | 148 (52.3%) | 76 (66.7%) | 34 (54.9%) | 369 (59.4%) |
Mentioned and discussed | 44 (27.2%) | 116 (41.0%) | 30 (26.3%) | 24 (38.7%) | 214 (34.5%) |
Only mentioned | 5 (3.1%) | 11 (3.9%) | 6 (5.3%) | 2 (3.2%) | 24 (3.9%) |
Neither mentioned nor discussed | 2 (1.2%) | 8 (2.8%) | 2 (1.7%) | 2 (3.2%) | 14 (2.2%) |
Tables | |||||
Mentioned and discussed | 107 (66.1%) | 191 (67.5%) | 61 (53.5%) | 28 (45.2%) | 387 (62.3%) |
Only mentioned | 42 (25.9%) | 39 (13.8%) | 38 (33.4%) | 4 (6.4%) | 123 (19.8%) |
No tables | 8 (4.9%) | 45 (15.9%) | 13 (11.4%) | 26 (42.0%) | 92 (14.8%) |
Neither mentioned nor discussed | 5 (3.1%) | 8 (2.8%) | 2 (1.7%) | 4 (6.4%) | 19 (3.1%) |