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The role of psychological factors in oncology nurses' burnout and compassion fatigue symptoms
- Source :
- Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- Purpose This study explored the role of several psychological factors in professional quality of life in nurses. Specifically, we tried to clarify the relationships between several dimensions of empathy, self-compassion, and psychological inflexibility, and positive (compassion satisfaction) and negative (burnout and compassion fatigue) domains of professional quality of life. Methods Using a cross-sectional design, a convenience sample of 221 oncology nurses recruited from several public hospitals filling out a battery of self-report measures. Results Results suggested that nurses that benefit more from their work of helping and assisting others (compassion satisfaction) seem to have more empathic feelings and sensibility towards others in distress and make an effort to see things from others' perspective. Also, they are less disturbed by negative feelings associated with seeing others' suffering and are more self-compassionate. Nurses more prone to experience the negative consequences associated with care-providing (burnout and compassion fatigue) are more self-judgmental and have more psychological inflexibility. In addition, they experience more personal feelings of distress when seeing others in suffering and less feelings of empathy and sensibility to others' suffering. Psychological factors explained 26% of compassion satisfaction, 29% of burnout and 18% of compassion fatigue. Conclusion We discuss the results in terms of the importance of taking into account the role of these psychological factors in oncology nurses' professional quality of life, and of designing nursing education training and interventions aimed at targeting such factors.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Oncology
medicine.medical_specialty
animal structures
Psychotherapist
media_common.quotation_subject
Psychological intervention
Nurses
Empathy
Compassion
Burnout
Job Satisfaction
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Quality of life (healthcare)
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Burnout, Professional
media_common
030504 nursing
Oncology (nursing)
Oncology Nursing
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Distress
Cross-Sectional Studies
Feeling
Compassion fatigue
Female
Compassion Fatigue
0305 other medical science
Psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14623889
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European Journal of Oncology Nursing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0f82f52e637140d1cb832c0b5b17e430