The development of the Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion Fatigue scale.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a high probability of compassion fatigue occurring in helping professionals who work with traumatized clients or patients. Several instruments exist for measuring compassion fatigue, but all of them have methodological flaws. The original Compassion Satisfaction/Fatigue Self-Test for Helpers is time-consuming and its psychometric properties, including factor structure, have not been supported in the research.

Methods

Therefore, the goal of this study was to apply a Mokken scale analysis for polytomous items to shorten the Compassion Satisfaction/Fatigue Self-Test for Helpers and improve its psychometric properties. In addition, we wanted to create norms for the helping professional population. The research sample consisted of 2,320 participants from vario

SUBMITTER: Halamova J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11655197 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature