Compassion Satisfaction, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Burnout among Nurses Working in Trauma Centers: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Hyoung Ju Lee,Miyoung Lee,Sun Joo Jang

doi:10.3390/ijerph18147228

Abstract

Due to the nature of their work, trauma nurses are exposed to traumatic situations and often experience burnout. We conducted a cross-sectional study examining compassion satisfaction, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout among trauma nurses to identify the predictors of burnout. Data were collected from 219 nurses in four trauma centers in South Korea from July to August 2019. We used the Traumatic Events Inventory to measure nurses’ traumatic experience and three Professional Quality of Life subscales to measure compassion satisfaction, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout. Multiple regression analysis confirmed that compassion satisfaction and secondary traumatic stress significantly predicted nurses’ burnout, with compassion satisfaction being the most potent predictor. The regression model explained 59.2% of the variance. Nurses with high job satisfaction, high compassion satisfaction, and low secondary traumatic stress tend to experience less burnout than their counterparts. Nurse managers should recognize that strategies to enhance job and compassion satisfaction and decrease secondary traumatic stress are required to decrease burnout among nurses in trauma centers.

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Academic Editor: Florian FischerReceived: 11 June 2021Accepted: 4 July 2021Published: 6 July 2021Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.In modern society, trauma case numbers have surged due to various industrial and natural disasters, traffic accidents, and injuries, brought about as the repercussions of greater living convenience and cultural changes [1]
This study was a cross-sectional investigation of traumatic event experience, compassion satisfaction, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout in trauma nurses
“moderate” in 50.7% of the nurses, and 75.3% of the nurses specified that they wanted to continue working in a trauma center

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Academic Editor: Florian FischerReceived: 11 June 2021Accepted: 4 July 2021Published: 6 July 2021Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.In modern society, trauma case numbers have surged due to various industrial and natural disasters, traffic accidents, and injuries, brought about as the repercussions of greater living convenience and cultural changes [1]. Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. While providing care for these patients, trauma nurses indirectly yet strongly experience the traumatic incidents suffered by the patients [2,3,4]. Due to the nature of their work, trauma nurses feel helplessness as they witness patients’ and their families’ pain [9] and become emotionally involved as they provide care for the patients and their caregivers, who experience unexpected health crises [10].

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