Factors Influencing Compassion Fatigue among Hospice and Palliative Care Unit Nurses

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This descriptive study aimed to explore nursing workplace spirituality, end-of-life care stress, and resilience as factors influencing compassion fatigue among nurses working in hospice and palliative care units.

Methods

Data were collected using a self-report questionnaire completed by 146 nurses at 14 hospice and palliative care institutions across South Korea who had worked in a hospice and palliative care institution for at least 6 months and had experience providing end-of-life care. Data were collected from February 25, 2019 to April 12, 2019, and analyzed using SPSS for Windows version 18.0. As appropriate, descriptive statistics, the t-test, analysis of variance, the Scheffé test, Pearson correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression were used

SUBMITTER: Cho E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10179998 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature