Mooney Claire, Fetter Katrina, Gross Brian W, Rinehart Cole, Lynch Caitlin, Rogers Frederick B
Nursing Department (Mss Mooney and Fetter) and Trauma Department (Messrs Gross, Rinehart, and Rogers and Ms Lynch), Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
J Trauma Nurs. 2017 May/Jun;24(3):158-163. doi: 10.1097/JTN.0000000000000284.
Compassion fatigue (CF), or vicarious traumatization, is a state of physical/emotional distress that results from caring for those experiencing pain. We sought to characterize levels of CF in intensive care unit (ICU) and oncology nursing populations with subanalyses comparing specific personal/professional demographic factors. The Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) scale, a validated tool for assessing CF, burnout (BO), and compassion satisfaction (CS), was distributed to the ICU and oncology divisions of a community hospital. Demographic data and ProQOL scale scores were collected and compared within specialty and gender subgroups. Two-sample t tests and regression analyses were used to compare groups. Statistical significance was defined as p < .05. A total of 86 nurses submitted completed surveys able to be analyzed. Levels of CS were significantly lower (p = .023) and levels of BO were significantly higher (p = .029) in ICU nurses than in oncology nurses. Male nurses exhibited significantly higher CS (p = .001) and significantly lower BO (p = .021) and CF (p = .014) than female nurses. Intensive care unit nurses and female nurses from both ICU and oncology specialties may be at increased risk for developing a poorer overall ProQOL and CF.
同情疲劳（CF），或替代性创伤，是一种因照顾那些经历痛苦的人而导致的身体/情绪困扰状态。我们试图描述重症监护病房（ICU）和肿瘤科护理人群中的CF水平，并通过亚分析比较特定的个人/职业人口统计学因素。向一家社区医院的ICU和肿瘤科发放了专业生活质量（ProQOL）量表，这是一种用于评估CF、职业倦怠（BO）和同情满意度（CS）的有效工具。收集了人口统计学数据和ProQOL量表分数，并在专业和性别亚组内进行比较。使用双样本t检验和回归分析来比较各组。统计学显著性定义为p < .05。共有86名护士提交了可分析的完整调查问卷。ICU护士的CS水平显著较低（p = .023），BO水平显著较高（p = .029）；男性护士表现出显著较高CS（p = .001），显著较低BO（p = .021）和CF（p = .014）。ICU护士以及来自ICU和肿瘤科的女性护士总体ProQOL和CF较差的风险可能更高。
