QUALITY DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE USED IN NURSING RESEARCH

scoping review, whose data collection was conducted in March 2017 from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel’s (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) Thesis and Dissertation Database. Dissertations and theses produced in the scope of graduate programs in Brazilian nursing that were qualitative research using software were included. Data were submitted to simple descriptive statistics.

Results:

the final sample consisted of 239 studies, especially descriptive studies (99; 41.5%), with a qualitative approach (194; 81.2%). They used the software in the data analysis step (148; 61.9%); 11 distinct software were used. Potentialities and difficulties of using the software were highlighted.

Conclusion:

Brazilian nursing has appropriated the use of qualitative data analysis support software in its research.

DESCRIPTORS
Software Qualitative research; Nursing research; Search; Health research evaluation

Software	n	%*
Atlas.ti	58	24.3
Alceste	47	19.7
NVivo	42	17.6
IRAMUTEQ	37	15.5
EVOC	30	12.6
Qualiquantisoft	12	5.0
Ethnograph	6	2.5
Tri-deux-mots	6	2.5
WebQDA	5	2.1
MaxQDA	3	1.3
OpenLogos	3	1.3

Research approach n (%)	Stage of use n (%)	Other relevant information n (%)
1^st most used software: Atlas.ti 58 (24,3%)
Qualitative 55 (94.8)	Analysis 30 (51.7)	Combined use with another software 1 (1.7)
Mixed 3 (5.2)	Treatment 20 (34.5)
	Treatment and analysis 8 (13.8)
2^nd most used software: ALCESTE 47 (19.7%)
Qualitative 32 (68.1)	Analysis 32 (68.0)	Combined use with another software 6 (12.8)
Mixed 15 (31.9)	Treatment 2 (4.3)
	Treatment and analysis 13 (27.7)	Use of social representations framework 22 (46.8)
3^rd most used software: NVivo 42 (17.6%)
Qualitative 37 (88.1)	Analysis 25 (59.5)	Combined use with another software 2 (4.8)
Mixed 5 (11.9)	Treatment 3 (31.0)
	Treatment and analysis 4 (9.5)
4^th most used software: IRAMUTEQ (37; 15.5%)
Qualitative 32 (86.4)	Analysis (26; 70.3)	Combined use with another software 1 (2.7)
Mixed 5 (13.6)	Treatment (4; 10.8)
	Treatment and analysis 7 (18.9)	Use of social representations framework 6 (16.2)
5^th most used software: EVOC 30 (12.6%)
Qualitative 22 (73.3)	Analysis 24 (80.0)	Combined use with another software 8 (26.7)
Mixed 8 (26.7)	Treatment 3 (10.0)
	Treatment and analysis 3 (10.0)	Use of social representations framework 24 (80.0)

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós Graduação em Enfermagem Campus Universitário Trindade, 88040-970 Florianópolis - Santa Catarina - Brasil, Tel.: (55 48) 3721-4915 / (55 48) 3721-9043 - Florianópolis - SC - Brazil
E-mail: textoecontexto@contato.ufsc.br

Acompanhe os números deste periódico no seu leitor de RSS

[1] CORRESPONDENCE AUTHOR
Pétala Tuani Candido de Oliveira Salvador petalatuani@hotmail.com