Compassion Fatigue: The Impact of Perinatal Loss Care on Nurses and Midwives in Japan
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Compassion Fatigue: The Impact of Perinatal Loss Care on Nurses and Midwives in Japan
Yazar:
Horiuchi, Shoko G., author.
ISBN:
9780438025257
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1 electronic resource (104 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: B.
Advisors: Wendy Packman; Janice Habarth Committee members: Matthew Cordova; Rowena Gomez.
Özet:
Compassion fatigue (CF) refers to emotional and behavioral reactions experienced by individuals who try to help others who are suffering (Figley, 2002), and is commonly seen among health care providers across the world (Fujioka, 2012; Slocum-Gori et al., 2011; Whitebird et al., 2013). Clinicians who treat mothers who had lost their babies during the perinatal period are not an exception. Studies have reported that perinatal workers experience CF and distress related to the care of grieving mothers (McKenna & Rolls, 2011; Mizuno et al., 2013).
The purpose of this study was to examine the factors associated with CF among midwives and nurses who treat grieving patients after miscarriage and stillbirth in Japan. Participants (N = 221) completed an online survey consisting of questionnaires measuring CF, compassion satisfaction (CS), distancing, self-compassion, recent negative life events, lifetime traumatic events, exposure to perinatal loss patients, and experience of receiving specialized training. The results indicated that distancing and recent negative life events had a mild positive correlation with CF, while self-compassion was moderately and negatively correlation with CF. A negative correlation between CF and distancing was unexpected; high distancing may be a reflection of clinicians' effort to cope with stress related to patient care. No significant correlations were found with CF and other study variables, including CS, exposure to perinatal loss patients, specialized training. Previous studies (Fujioka, 2011; Jo, 2014) have suggested a non-linear relationship between CF and CS, and the results of this study also supported this idea. Multiple regression analyses revealed that distancing and self-compassion accounted for a significant amount of the variance in CF. Furthermore, a hierarchical regression analysis suggested that specialized training altered the effect of lifetime traumatic events on CF by reducing the level of CF. This provided the preliminary evidence that training specialized in perinatal loss care may reduce the level of CF for clinicians who experienced the high number of negative life events. The findings of this study provided valuable scientific data that could contribute to better understanding of CF in the perinatal field in the non-Western cultural context.
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School code: 1569
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