Caracterização da produção científica sobre meditação na área da Saúde e na Enfermagem: revisão de literatura / Characterization of scientific production of meditation in Health and Nursing: literature review
A meditação tem sido reconhecida na literatura científica como prática complementar de saúde e como uma técnica útil para tratar doenças orgânicas e psíquicas.
Objetivo:
Este estudo objetivou caracterizar o panorama das publicações acerca do tema "meditação", considerando país de origem, idioma, subárea do conhecimento, tipo de estudo e resultado da técnica. Material e
Métodos:
Revisão de literatura para a qual os dados foram coletados em janeiro de 2014 por meio de consultas às seguintes bases de dados Embase, Lilacs, Pubmed e Scielo. A busca limitou-se a estudos publicados entre 2001 a 2014, e não houve restrição de idioma.
Meditation has been recognized in the scientific literature as a complementary therapy and as a useful techmique for treating organic and phychiatric disorders.
Objective:
This study aimed to characterize the publications about "meditation" considering country of origin, idiom, subarea of knowledge, study design and technique result. Material and
Methods:
Literaturereview which data were collected in January 2014 through consultation to the following databases. Embase, Lilacs, PubMed and SciELO. The search was limited to studies published between 2001 and 2014 and there was no idiom restriction.
Results:
Of the 170 articles evaluated, most are from United States and United Kingdom. The English Language was predominant. Tha main subarea that published studies was medicine. The main study design used was clinical trial. Approximately 70.0% of the studies had positive results. Final Considerations There is a discrepancy between the number of publications on meditation at the international level compared to brazilian publications and are few researches from Nursing subarea about "meditation".(AU)