Analysis of Domestic Research Trends Related to International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health(ICF)

A Review of Domestic Research Trends Related to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF): 2015-2020

“…However, the numbers of yearly published papers since 2012 were reported as around 20 each year in these studies, which is consistent with the observations by year of this study. The areas of expertise that were addressed the most in domestic ICF-related research were clinical, special education, and social welfare areas, a similar finding to that of the previous studies [4,10,11]. These results are considered to indicate that research to utilize the ICF in collecting and analyzing information on the subjects' functioning in these areas has been continuously conducted.…”

“…The frequencies of domestic ICF-related papers published in academic journals from 2015 to 2020, the research subject did not show a distinct increase or decrease according to the year of publication. This result was not consistent with the previous studies reporting a clear increasing trend [4,10]. However, the numbers of yearly published papers since 2012 were reported as around 20 each year in these studies, which is consistent with the observations by year of this study.…”

“…This study was conducted on the papers that met the inclusion criteria among research papers published during the period from 2015 to 2020, after the release of preceding studies on domestic ICF-related research trends [4,10]. The research papers selected as the subjects of this study were classified and analyzed by year of publication, area of expertise, research topic, research subject type, and used components, and based on the results obtained, the following discussions can be made.…”

“…For the analysis of the papers selected as subjects, the analytic framework presented in the previous studies was reconstructed [4,10]. A coding process was carried out for the title of the paper, year of publication, name of the researcher, area of expertise, type of research subjects, degree of the use of ICF, components of the ICF used, research topic, name of the published journal, and major issues.…”

“…There have been studies to analyze the trends in ICF-related research in Korea as well, reporting that ICF-related research on patients and the disabled is gradually increasing mainly in the clinical, social welfare, and special education areas [4,10]. These studies were, however, conducted on domestic ICF-related research published before 2015, and the other studies that analyzed the ICF research trends only analyzed the trends in research on some specific areas or the core set [11,12], which indicates a lack of studies analyzing the overall trends in recent domestic ICF-related research.…”