scholarly journals A túlélők mindennapjai. A hospice-ellátásban dolgozók életminősége

2016 ◽  
Vol 157 (25) ◽  
pp. 1000-1006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edit Révay ◽  
Adrienne Kegye ◽  
Ágnes Zana ◽  
Katalin Hegedűs
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Compassion Satisfaction ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Hospice Workers ◽  
Mental Symptoms ◽  
And Coping

Introduction: Each year, the number of hospice services and terminally ill patients increase while the number of hospice workers is falling. The intensification of the physical and mental burdens of the latter can lead to burnout and the fluctuation of the workers. Aim: The aim of the authors was to survey the physical and mental state of hospice workers, as well as the risk of burnout and coping strategies. Method: A questionnaire survey in hospice experts and volunteers (n ≈ 1500) based on the Hungarostudy survey was performed. Results: Those who filled in the questionnaire (n = 195) had on average 1.86 workplaces and 45.8% of them reported working 12 or more hours a day. Most often, they suffered from lack of energy (65.1%), disturbing physical pain (46.9%), sleeping (56.9%) and digestion (35%), they considered themselves overweight (56.9%) and they were occupied with work problems even at bedtime (72.8%). Conclusions: Hospice workers are overloaded, they have physical and mental symptoms and they are characterized by compassion fatigue. At the same time, they are also characterized by compassion satisfaction as an ability to accept appreciation for the caretaking. Orv. Hetil., 2016, 157(25), 1000–1006.

scholarly journals PROFESSIONAL QUALITY OF LIFE AND COPING IN A REFERENCE HOSPITAL FOR VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thayane Martins Dornelles ◽  
Andreia Barcellos Teixeira Macedo ◽  
Sônia Beatriz Cocaro de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Secondary Traumatic Stress ◽  
Compassion Satisfaction ◽  
Professional Quality Of Life ◽  
Professional Quality ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
And Coping

ABSTRACT Objective: to verify the relationship between professional quality of life scores and coping strategies in the multidisciplinary health team that assists children and adolescents victims of sexual violence. Method: a cross-sectional study carried out in a public hospital of Porto Alegre, Brazil. Data collection took place from July to October 2018, using the Professional Quality of Life Scale and the Inventory of Coping Responses at Work. The analysis was performed using the Kruskal-Wallis test and Pearson's Correlation Coefficient. Regression was used for independent variables with p ≤ 0.05 in the bivariate analyses. Results: the professionals showed a medium level in the compassion satisfaction dimension (54.2%), medium level for secondary traumatic stress (50.8%), and medium level for Burnout (61%). Regarding the coping strategies, the decision-making strategy showed a weak correlation with the compassion satisfaction dimension (0.261), and the emotional extravasation strategy showed a moderate correlation with secondary traumatic stress (0.485) and Burnout (0.399). The female gender was associated with secondary traumatic stress (p=0.002). Conclusion: the identification of coping strategies such as decision-making can help the professionals to increase the levels of compassion satisfaction. In situations of suffering in daily work, management to avoid emotional extravasation should take place, preventing high levels of compassion fatigue. Such information is important to support public policies on occupational health, as well as programs to promote occupational health.

Evaluation of a program to celebrate seasonal events for Japanese hospice patients

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatsuko Matsushima ◽  
Akira Akabayashi ◽  
Brian Taylor Slingsby ◽  
Kenji Nishitateno
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Stage Of Disease ◽  
Terminal Stage ◽  
Hospice Patients

Objective: Palliative care of the terminally ill requires not only treatment of physical pain, but also care for a patient's spiritual and social needs. In Japan, where many customs correlate closely with the seasons of fall, winter, spring, and summer, seasonal events carry significance for patients who have reached a terminal stage of disease. This study determined how Japanese hospice patients evaluate a program that celebrates seasonal events and considers the modality and significance of season events at hospices.Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted for 1 year between August 2000 and July 2001 at a hospice located in the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan. Of the original 48 instruments, a total of 43 instruments were returned (response rate: 89.6%).Results: Results showed that 72.1% of respondents participated in seasonal events, and the majority of participants positively evaluated their experiences of seasonal events. Positive aspects included being able to get a feeling for the seasons (74.2%) and being able to interact with staff and volunteers (51.6%). Negative aspects included that the events were too long (9.7%) and tiring (6.5%), and that the events made one feel sad (6.5%). Reasons for participating in seasonal events included seeming fun (71.0%), recreative (58.1%), and being entertaining (48.4%).Significance of results: Overall findings suggest that there is significance in celebrating the seasons with a monthly event at hospices. Further research is needed on the modality and experiences of celebrating the seasons at hospices in other nations.

Personal and Contextual Predictors of Mental Health Counselors' Compassion Fatigue and Burnout

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Thompson ◽  
Ellen Amatea ◽  
Eric Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Coping Strategy ◽  
Compassion Satisfaction ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mental Health Counselors ◽  
Counselor Burnout ◽  
And Coping

This study applied transactional stress and coping theory to explore the contributions of counselor gender, years of experience, perceived working conditions, personal resources of mindfulness, use of coping strategy, and compassion satisfaction to predict compassion fatigue and burnout in a national sample of 213 mental health counselors. Multiple regression analyses revealed that in this sample while perceived working conditions, mindfulness, use of coping strategy, and compassion satisfaction accounted for only 31.1% of the variance in compassion fatigue, these factors explained 66.9% of the variance in burnout. Counselors who reported less maladaptive coping, higher mindfulness attitudes and compassion satisfaction, and more positive perceptions of their work environment reported less burnout. The utility of these findings in understanding the development of counselor burnout and compassion fatigue are discussed, as are directions for future research.

The Role of Stressors and Coping Strategies in the Burnout Experienced by Hospice Workers

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 488-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Sardiwalla ◽  
H. VandenBerg ◽  
K. G. F. Esterhuyse
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Hospice Workers ◽  
And Coping

scholarly journals The relationships of both transition shock, empathy, resilience and coping strategies with professional quality of life in newly graduated nurses

BMC Nursing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyi Cao ◽  
Jin Li ◽  
Shu Gong
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Compassion Satisfaction ◽  
Adaptive Coping ◽  
Professional Quality Of Life ◽  
Professional Quality ◽  
Newly Graduated Nurses ◽  
Transition Shock ◽  
And Coping

Abstract Background Data on professional quality of life in newly graduated nurses are scarce. This study aimed to describe the levels of professional quality of life, and to explore the relationships of transition shock, empathy, resilience and coping strategies with professional quality of life in newly graduated nurses. Methods This was a cross-sectional study, which used a two-stage sampling method to recruit 393 newly graduated nurses in Sichuan province of China. Multiple regression analysis was used to explore the effects of transition shock, empathy, resilience and coping strategies on professional quality of life. Data were collected using standardized scales. Results The prevalence of average levels of compassion satisfaction, burnout and secondary traumatic stress in newly graduated nurses were 80.2, 38.2 and 57.5%, respectively. Transition shock was a significant negative predictor, and empathy, resilience and adaptive coping were significant positive predictors for compassion satisfaction. Transition shock and passive coping were significant positive predictors, and empathy was a significant negative predictor for burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Resilience and adaptive coping contributed to burnout significantly and negatively. Conclusion Higher transition shock and lower empathy cause lower compassion satisfaction and higher compassion fatigue. More resilience and adaptive coping cause more compassion satisfaction and less burnout. More passive coping contributes to higher compassion fatigue. Strategies such as transition or preceptorship programmes, and empathy, resilience and coping training are effective methods to reduce transition shock, facilitate empathy, resilience and coping, and consequently, enhance professional quality of life in newly graduated nurses.

scholarly journals Fatigue due to compassion in health professionals and coping strategies: a scoping review

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivian Jilou ◽  
Joyce Mara Gabriel Duarte ◽  
Rosa Helena Aparecida Gonçalves ◽  
Edson Elias Vieira ◽  
Ana Lúcia de Assis Simões
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Health Work ◽  
Current State ◽  
New Research ◽  
And Coping

ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify the current state of knowledge on compassion fatigue in the work context of healthcare professionals; and how coping strategies are established in this scenario. Method: a scoping review with search applied to the databases: MEDLINE, LILACS, CINAHL, Scopus. Temporal limit: 2009 to 2019. The data was analyzed and synthesized in narrative form Results: thirty articles were selected, synthesized into two categories: a) Health work and compassion fatigue: conceptual analysis, context, and manifestations; b) Coping strategies for compassion fatigue. Conclusions: this study presented: a descriptive and general panorama about compassion fatigue in healthcare professionals, identifying a greater consolidation of the concept between 2015 and 2018; and some coping strategies. The association between health and spirituality is highlighted as one of the strategies in this scenario, enabling new research to be conducted in view of the importance of the theme in life, health work.

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