background & aim: the four elements of the nursing meta-paradigm, namely, human, health, environment, and nursing have attracted much attention in the west for years. this study redefined the meta-paradigm or core concepts of nursing from the perspective of islam . methods & materials: a qualitative content analysis was used to collect and analyze data. data collection were based on in-depth se...

OBJECTIVES Several researchers have proposed the use of logical ontologies as 'reference terminologies'. However, there are a number of unresolved issues. This article describes the development of a logical ontology for nursing interventions and presents the results of evaluation. METHODS Initially this study involved the development in GRAIL of two separate experimental ontologies: an ontolo...

Objectives Several researchers have proposed the use of logical ontologies as 'reference terminologies'. However, there are a number of unresolved issues. This article describes the development of a logical ontology for nursing interventions and presents the results of evaluation. Methods Initially this study involved the development in GRAIL of two separate experimental ontologies: an ontology...

OBJECTIVE to align the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®) Version 2.0 ontology and a proposed INCP® Brazilian Ontology. METHOD document-based, exploratory and descriptive study, the empirical basis of which was provided by the ICNP® 2.0 Ontology and the INCP® Brazilian Ontology. The ontology alignment was performed using a computer tool with algorithms to identify corre...

AIM To explore the use of paradigms as ontological and philosophical guides for conducting PhD research. BACKGROUND A paradigm can help to bridge the aims of a study and the methods to achieve them. However, choosing a paradigm can be challenging for doctoral researchers: there can be ambiguity about which paradigm is suitable for a particular research question and there is a lack of guidance...

Nursing Care Plans (NCP) and Nursing Clinical Practice Guidelines (NCPG) promote evidence-based patient care, but in their paper form they are difficult to be applied at the point-of-care. We present our approach to generate patient-specific nursing care plans by modeling and computerizing these nursing knowledge resources. We present a Nursing CarePlan Ontology (NCO) that models the NCP and NC...

this research aims to compare the capabilities of a thesaurus and an ontology for representation of domain knowledge. this is the first to focus on the construction of an ontology in library and information science (lis), in the domain of indexing and in persian language. the research also develops the methodology of ontology construction by implementing domain analysis methodology. the present...

BACKGROUND Lifestyle modification is the most important factor in the management of obesity. It is therefore essential to enhance client participation in voluntary and continuous weight control. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to develop an obesity management ontology for application in the mobile-device domain. We considered the concepts of client participation in behavioral modification...