How Do Health Professionals Maintain Compassion Over Time? Insights From a Study of Compassion in Health.

ABSTRACT: Although compassion in healthcare differs in important ways from compassion in everyday life, it provides a key, applied microcosm in which the science of compassion can be applied. Compassion is among the most important virtues in medicine, expected from medical professionals and anticipated by patients. Yet, despite evidence of its centrality to effective clinical care, research has focused on compassion fatigue or barriers to compassion and neglected to study the fact that most healthcare professionals maintain compassion for their patients. In contributing to this understudied area, the present report provides an exploratory investigation into how healthcare professionals report trying to maintain compassion. In the study, 151 professionals were asked questions about how they maintaine

SUBMITTER: Baguley SI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7802760 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature