Professional quality of life, self‐compassion, resilience, and empathy in healthcare professionals during COVID‐19 crisis in Spain

Fernández, María Dolores Ruiz; Ramos‐Pichardo, Juan Diego; Ibáñez‐Masero, Olivia; Carmona-Rega, María Inés; Sánchez-Ruiz, Máximo Juan; Ortega‐Galán, Ángela María

doi:10.1002/nur.22158

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“…Self-compassion was, indeed, shown to be a factor able to counterbalance the negative experience of work exhaustion. This result is in line with findings from international research [98][99][100][101][102][103] and also with particular attention given to the COVID-19 work context [106][107][108][109][110].…”

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confidence: 90%

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Wellbeing in Workers during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Self-Compassion in the Relationship between Personal Resources and Exhaustion

Grandi

Zito

Sist

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Italy was the second country to be affected by COVID-19 in early 2020, after China. The confrontation with the pandemic led to great changes in the world of work and, consequently, to the personal world of workers. In such a challenging situation, it is essential to be able to rely on resources that facilitate individual coping. The aim of this study was to understand the association between personal resources (optimism and humor) and exhaustion, and the role of self-compassion in this relationship. A structural equation model (SEM) was used to test the hypotheses on a heterogeneous sample of 422 Italian workers during the first lockdown in April–May 2020. The results revealed that optimism and humor were positively associated with self-compassion; optimism and humor also had a negative association with exhaustion; and self-compassion had a mediating role between the two personal resources and exhaustion. These results confirmed the importance of personal resources in maintaining workers’ wellbeing during a challenging period such as the pandemic. The present study also contributes to the body of knowledge on self-compassion, a relatively new construct that has been little studied in the organizational field.

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confidence: 90%

“…Self-compassion is a very valuable resource, not only in daily life, but also in critical situations. Indeed, its importance in the pandemic context has been recognized in several international studies on samples of workers [106][107][108][109][110].…”

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confidence: 99%

Wellbeing in Workers during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Self-Compassion in the Relationship between Personal Resources and Exhaustion

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Zito

Sist

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…16 The pandemic brought a wide range of challenges for healthcare professionals, such as witnessing a large number of deaths, facing rational decisions, risk of infection and family members' exposure, increased workload and working without sufficient equipment. [17][18][19] These stressful conditions also brought symptoms of mental disorders and somatization to healthcare workers. [20][21][22] These short and long term challenges are impacting health professionals' efficiency, occupational stress and patient care, by influencing their professional quality of life (ProQoL).…”

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Professional Quality of Life and Occupational Stress in Healthcare Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Greece

Latsou

Bolosi

Androutsou

et al. 2022

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Background: Health professionals (HPs) coping with the coronavirus pandemic are at risk of working under stressful conditions impacting their professional well-being. The aim of this paper was to explore HP’s professional quality of life and occupational stress during the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted (from October to December 2020) in a COVID-19 reference hospital, one of the biggest in Attica. The method of convenience sampling has been used. Data collection was carried out through an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire including, apart from HPs’ demographic and occupational characteristics, Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQoL) and Job Stress Measure. A total of 250 questionnaires were distributed to physicians and nurses. One hundred eighty-six questionnaires were fully completed (response rate = 78.8%). The analysis was based on descriptive and inductive statistics, using SPSS v25. Results: Participants’ mean age was 41.5 ± 10.4 years; 75.3% were women and 62.4% was nursing staff. ProQoL analysis showed that the majority had moderate compassion satisfaction (74.2%) and burnout (78.5%), while 48.8% had moderate level of secondary post-traumatic stress. The mean value of occupational stress was estimated at 2.76, showing a moderate level of stress. HPs’ demographic and occupational characteristics seemed to affect both work stress and ProQoL ( P ⩽ .05). Occupational stress was positively correlated with both burnout ( r = 0.461, P = .001) and secondary post-traumatic stress ( r = 0.596, P = .001), indicating that an increase in health professionals’ stress at work corresponds to a simultaneous increase in ProQoL. Conclusions: HPs’ professional quality of life and occupational stress seemed to be moderate during the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece. In order to achieve an improvement in HPs’ overall professional well-being, priority should be given to the strengthening of the capacity of the healthcare system as well as to supporting HPs in both stress management and psychological resilience.

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“…As a response to the increased stress levels during the COVID‐19 pandemic, it has been suggested that cultivating compassion at the workplace can foster resilience and self‐compassion and help professionals to cope with suffering and death (Ruiz‐Fernandez et al, 2021 ; While, 2021 ). This study uses the term compassion to refer to awareness of another person's suffering, feeling for it and motivation to act to share or alleviate suffering.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Other practices and solutions suggested for the mitigation of stress in the nursing profession through compassionate leadership include the recognition of distress‐prone individuals (Laukkala et al, 2021 ); mutual support between colleagues; frequent debriefs (Hendin et al, 2020 ); good work‐life balance (Horesh & Brown, 2020 ); mindfulness (Ruiz‐Fernandez et al, 2021 ) and collaboration with multiple stakeholders in the community to develop creative solutions (Alharbi et al, 2020 ). Vogel and Flint ( 2021 ) have developed the Compassion in the Workplace Model, to be used as a tool by leaders in the assessment and development of compassion (Vogel & Flint, 2021 ).…”

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Nurses' ratings of compassionate nursing leadership during the Covid‐19 pandemic—A descriptive cross‐sectional study

Salminen‐Tuomaala

Seppälä

2022

J Nursing Management

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Aim The aim of this study is to investigate how intensive and emergency nurses rated the adequacy of compassionate leadership during the early stages of the Covid‐19 pandemic. Background The pandemic has resulted in nurses' increased stress and need for compassion from leaders. Compassionate leadership is here defined as a number of leadership practices based on altruistic values and emotional intelligence. Method This is a quantitative descriptive cross‐sectional study based on a questionnaire for 50 intensive and emergency care nurses in a central hospital in Finland. Results The pandemic had increased nurses' need for compassion, but their needs for support had not been met and their strengths and competence appreciated sufficiently. They agreed that compassionate leadership could be developed through experience and personal development rather than through education. Conclusion Compassionate leadership is a process that involves a number of leadership practices based on altruistic values and emotional intelligence and benefits from recognition and use of employee strengths. Leaders and employees could benefit from simulation‐based learning, work supervision and discussion led by external facilitators. Implications for Nursing Management Compassionate leadership involves approachability, genuine presence and listening, which could be developed through work‐based learning combined with reflection.

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Professional quality of life, self‐compassion, resilience, and empathy in healthcare professionals during COVID‐19 crisis in Spain

Cited by 61 publications

References 56 publications

Wellbeing in Workers during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Self-Compassion in the Relationship between Personal Resources and Exhaustion

Wellbeing in Workers during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Role of Self-Compassion in the Relationship between Personal Resources and Exhaustion

Professional Quality of Life and Occupational Stress in Healthcare Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Greece

Nurses' ratings of compassionate nursing leadership during the Covid‐19 pandemic—A descriptive cross‐sectional study

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