Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Nursing Interventions in Improving the Quality of Life of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study  of Nursing, Quality of Life and Type 2 Diabetes. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document was to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2017-2022 by Latin American institutions, achieving the identification of 354 publications. The information provided by this platform was organized through graphs and figures, categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics have been described, the position of different authors on the proposed topic is referenced through a qualitative analysis. Among the main findings made through this research, it is found that Brazil with 242 publications with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with institutions in that country. The Area of Knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of the relationship that exists between nurses and patients, with the quality of the service offered in the intensive care unit, was Nursing, with 216 published documents, and the most used Publication Type during the period indicated above were Journal Articles, with 89% of the total scientific production.