Secondary Traumatic Stress among Medical Doctors and Nurses Working in the Intensive and Critical Care Units of Hospitals of Ulaanbaatar During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Professional quality of life for those providing care has been a topic of growing interest over the past twenty years. The Professional Quality of Life includes positive aspects of helping others or Compassion satisfaction (CS) and Compassion fatigue (CF) associated with the negative aspect. CF contains two aspects as Burnout (BO) and Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS) (Stamm).Our study was a hospital-based, cross sectional study based in The Specialized Medical Centers and The District General Hospitals of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. A total of 300 medical doctors and nurses were involved in our survey. In this study we were used the Professional Quality of Life Scale, version 5 (ProQOL-5) measure, developed by Stamm (2005). The average and high rate of experiencing secondary trauma stress was 73.1% of nurses (138 of 194 nurses); and was 82% of doctors (88 of 106 doctors). It is necessary to develop support systems for nurses and medical doctors at risk for secondary traumatic stress who working in intensive and critical care units of hospitals in Mongolia.

Compassion fatigue and the meaning in life as predictors of secondary traumatic stress in nurses during the COVID‐19 pandemic

“…The results of this study show that working with COVID‐19 patients increased the level of STS. In the study conducted with doctors and nurses, STS levels of nurses and doctors were found to be high, with a statistical difference found between staff of different working units (Sodnom et al, 2021). Healthcare workers working with COVID‐19 patients have high STS levels (Arpacioglu et al, 2021; Blanco‐Donoso et al, 2021), although one study found no relationship between this (İlhan & Küpeli, 2022).…”