Japanese public health nurses classified based on empathy and secondary traumatic stress: variable-centered and person-centered approaches.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthcare providers frequently help traumatized people and are regularly exposed to indirect trauma from their work, resulting in negative psychological responses, such as secondary traumatic stress. Empathy has been associated with patient's quality of care and secondary traumatic stress among healthcare providers. However, the relationship between dispositional empathy and secondary traumatic stress has not been fully elucidated. This study used person- and variable-centered approaches to explore the nature of this relationship.

Methods

A total of 1,006 Japanese public health nurses working in the Tohoku region and Saitama prefecture completed questionnaires that included scales assessing dispositional empathy, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout. First, we

SUBMITTER: Kitano M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10544614 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature