The content analysis used in nursing research and the possibility of including artificial intelligence support: A methodological review

Abstract

Background: This article explores how AI supports nurses by employing content analysis for scientific nursing research.

Methods: A narrative literature review was conducted.

Results: The article summarizes the knowledge known about content analysis and outlines qualitative and quantitative content analysis concepts and simplifies the issues related to the coding process. It explains how to identify and assess quality during content analysis and gives examples of topics that can be investigated using it, especially in the field of nursing.

Conclusions: Knowledge of AI capabilities is needed to make positive use of it. These capabilities change very quickly and require constant knowledge updates. Legal and ethical regulations concerning the use of technology are still lacking, so AI outputs still require human verification of them.

Keywords: AI; Content analysis; Nurses use of AI healthcare use of AI; Qualitative analysis; Quantitative analysis.