A Bibliometric Analysis Of Maternal Care Research Using Vosviewer

Abstract

Background: Pregnant women may be more susceptible to stress, which may result in psychological difficulties.Women with good family support were less likely to have anxiety, sleeplessness, despair, and post-traumatic stressdisorder (PTSD).

Purpose: This research aims to identify publications containing information on ideas related to family support formaternal care.

Methods: This research is to perform a map based on text data. Step one is for the researcher to use publish or perish to search journal articles with Google Scholar about maternity care in 2018-2022, with a total result of 989 articles. Step two is for the researcher to use VosViewer and create a map based on thetext data from the reference manager file with a title field using binary counting. Of the 1748 terms in the 701 articles, 73 meet the threshold, with a minimum occurrence of term 5- the next term to be selected is 44.

Results: The network visualization of the focus topic, maternity care, shows that this is the most frequently researchedtopic and is seen in bright yellow with a large font size. In addition to maternity care, there are several words or topicsthat were often researched: maternity care provider, family caregiver, and healthcare provider.

Conclusion: The analysis of the focused maternity care network visualization reveals that this is the most studied issue.