Method
Creators: name: Medrado, Graciane Cordeiro Correa
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2022

description: This is a Scoping Review protocol, in which the recommendations of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) (9). For its development, it will be used as a methodological reference for Evidence Synthesis do Joanna Briggs Institute (10). 

Thus, the method will consist of the following steps: (1) define and align objectives and questions; (2) develop and align the inclusion criteria with the review's objectives and question; (3) describe the planned approach to finding evidence, selecting, extracting data, and presenting evidence; (4) search for evidence; (5) selection of evidence; (6) extract the evidence; (7) analyze the evidence; (8) present the results; (9) summarize the evidence in relation to the purpose of the review, drawing conclusions and noting any implications of the results. 

For the construction of the research question, the PCC strategy was used, which advocates the mnemonic as fundamental elements: P - Population, C - Concept and C - Context. The elements were defined: PCC: P (Researchers of Graduate Nursing Programs); C (international cooperation) and C (world context) and from that, the following research question was elaborated: What is the evidence available in the literature on international cooperation between researchers from Graduate Nursing programs in the global context? 

The following databases will be used to search for evidence: Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE/PubMed), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied (CINAHL), Web of Science, Scopus, Cochrane, Embase, Lilacs, Base of Nursing Data (BDENF), ProQuest/ The British Library and Google Scholar as additional references. Thus, two independent researchers will carry out the selection of studies and the synthesis of data and a third will be called in case of disagreement. 

It should be noted that to define the controlled (Medical Subject Headings -MeSH) and non-controlled (keywords) descriptors, initially, a search was carried out in the database (MEDLINE/PubMed) and considering the pre-established PCC, the following strategy:


P (Population) 

#1 "Research Personnel” OR "Personnel, Research" OR Researchers [All Fields] OR Researcher OR Investigators OR Investigator OR "Survey Personnel" OR "Personnel, Survey" OR Doctoral OR PhD OR "Doctorate Degree" OR "Doctoral Education" OR Master OR "Master's Degree" 

 

 

#2 "Education, Nursing, Graduate" OR "Postgraduate Nursing Education" OR "Graduate Education" OR "Graduate Educations" OR " Education, Nursing, Graduate" OR "Postgraduate” 

 

C (Context) 

#3 "International Cooperation" OR "Cooperation, International" OR "International Research Collaboration" OR "International Educational Exchange" OR "Scientific Cooperation" OR "Technical Cooperation" OR "International Collaboration" OR "international research collaboration" OR "educational experience" OR "Inter-professional Cooperation" OR "International Partners" OR "Collaborative study" OR "Interinstitutional Research" OR "Cooperative Behavior" OR "Educational Partnership" 

It is noteworthy that the strategy presented will be adapted according to the selected databases. Studies that address international cooperation between researchers from Graduate Nursing programs will be included, regardless of their training/profession. Thus, primary and secondary studies, dissertations and theses, texts, national and international government sources, as well as additional references will be included. It is noteworthy that there will be no date or language restriction for the selection of studies. The Rayyan® bibliographic manager will be used to import retrieved articles and exclude duplicate studies. 

Exclusion criteria include editorial texts and expert opinions, as well as studies that address postgraduate lato sensu and residency programs. 

The evidence will be presented through descriptive synthesis, which will allow a better visualization of the findings of this study, and will be presented in the form of tables and figures, according to the guidelines of the PRISMA-SrR protocol (Tricco et al., 2018). Thus, it is expected that the results will contribute to the consolidation of international cooperation of Graduate Nursing Programs in Brazil, based on evidence on implementation strategies and action planning that collaborate with the advancement of collaborative research networks between research nurses in the country.