Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Research Protocols
Date Submitted: Apr 16, 2023
Date Accepted: Jun 1, 2023
Wearable Devices and Nurses Health: An Integrative Review Protocol
ABSTRACT
Background:
Nurses comprise over half of the global healthcare workforce, and the nursing care they provide is critical for the global population's health. High patient volumes and increased medical complexity have increased the workload and stress of nurses. As a result, the health of the nurse is often negatively impacted. Wearables are used within the healthcare setting to assess patient outcomes; however, efforts to synthesize the use of wearable devices focusing on the nurse’s health are limited.
Objective:
The primary objective of our integrative review is to synthesize available data concerning the utility of wearable devices for evaluating and/or improving the health of nurses.
Methods:
We are conducting an integrative review synthesizing data specific to wearable devices and nurses’ health. The research question for this review aims to answer how wearable devices are used to evaluate health outcomes with nurses. We searched the following electronic databases from inception until July 2022: PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Science, IEEE Explore, and AS&T. Titles and abstracts were imported into Covidence software, where citations were screened, and duplicates were removed. Title and abstract screening has been completed; however, full-text screening has not been started. Further screening is being conducted independently and in duplicate by two teams of two reviewers. These reviewers will extract data independently.
Results:
Search strategies were developed, and data were extracted from six databases. After the removal of duplicates, we collected 8,607 studies for title and abstract screening. Two independent reviewers conducted the title and abstract review, and after resolving conflicts, there are 277 full-text articles to review to assess if they meet the inclusion criteria.
Conclusions:
This integrative review will provide synthesized data to inform nurses and other stakeholders about the extent of wearable device work done with nurses and provide direction for future research.
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