Specialized nursing terminology in pre-exposure prophylaxis: alexical analysis.
José Leonildo Fernandes de Queiroz, Daniela Dias Quirino, Semíramis Mesquita Ciríaco da Silva and 3 others
PMID 42506975WHAT IT FOUND
Nursing care terms for HIV PrEP grouped into implementation, decision-making, vulnerability perception, and professional care.
The map comes from 18 documents and does not test whether the terms improve patient care.
Key findings
01The analysis grouped text segments into four classes: implementation of PrEP (27.2%), decision-making (23.3%), perception of vulnerability (14%), and professional care (35.5%).
02The professional care class included terms such as nurse, professional, health, infection, transmissible, monitoring, and examination.
03The terms were also organized into Roy's four adaptive modes: physiological, self-concept, role function, and interdependence.
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What it does not show
The authors state that results may not generalize because the analysis depends on the texts included and researcher interpretation. The classification relied on software and the researchers' interpretation, so other researchers might group terms differently. Some included documents were technical reports, protocols, or guidelines. The term map comes from 18 documents and 1,566 classified text segments, not from testing care in patients.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat this term map as evidence that standardized nursing terminology improves HIV PrEP care or patient outcomes. The study analyzed words in 18 documents and did not test a care process or measure patient results.