The Experience of Secondary Traumatic Stress Upon Care Providers Working Within a Children's Hospital

Robins, Paul M.; Meltzer, Lisa J.; Zelikovsky, Nataliya

doi:10.1016/j.pedn.2008.03.007

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“…Nurse participation in stress management activities was associated with less prevalence of STS symptoms. Our study consistent with study of Robins et al which that suggested overall that the level of compassion fatigue in this sample was similar to a trauma worker comparison group [9]. In addition, 39% of the sample was at moderately to extremely high risk for compassion fatigue, and 21% was at moderate to high risk for burnout.…”

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“…Furthermore, 39% of the sample were at moderately to extremely high risk for compassion fatigue, and 21% were at moderate to high risk for burnout, suggesting a good deal of risk amongst individuals in the sample [9]. Moreover, research on STS among helping professionals indicated rates of 16% to 20% among social workers in a U.S. military hospital [10], and rates of 17% to 19% among physicians in hospitals across NewZealand.…”

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The Relationship between War Trauma, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Anxiety Among Health Professionals Working at Emergency Departments in Gaza-Strip

Matter¹,

Thabet²

2017

J Nurs Health Stud

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Aims: The aims of the study were 1) to investigate the type and severity of traumatic event for health professionals working at emergency department, 2) to find the most common mental health problems results from trauma (Secondary traumatic stress and anxiety), and 3) to investigate the relationships between trauma, secondary traumatization, anxiety, and other socioeconomic variables. Method:The sample consisted of 214 health professionals working in hospitals emergency rooms in Gaza, who completed the Gaza Traumatic Events Checklist, Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale, and Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale.Results: Participants reported a range of traumatic events, commonly they reported watching the pictures of corpses, wounded and the killed people in TV (88.79%), witnessed wounded and the killed people and body parts while working in the emergency department (86.45%), and lost a family member or friends in the war (62.6%). According to secondary traumatic stress criteria, 45% of the health professionals met the criteria for secondary traumatic stress meeting all three core diagnostic criteria. While 51.7% had moderate to severe anxiety symptoms. There was a significant relationship between traumatic events and total secondary traumatic stress and anxiety.Relevance to clinical practice: Secondary trauma is not well considered in research into clinically important topics. Yet health professionals deal regularly with issues of death and dying, and with violence and abuse. Our proposed framework allows for consideration of these so that precautionary measures can be put in place to minimize harm to health staff in the Gaza Strip Hospitals.

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The Relationship between War Trauma, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Anxiety Among Health Professionals Working at Emergency Departments in Gaza-Strip

Matter¹,

Thabet²

2017

J Nurs Health Stud

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“…공감피로, 특히 이차 외상성 스트레스를 경험하는 개인은 공감으로 인한 고통으로부터 벗어 나기 위해 서비스 대상자에게 거리를 둠으로써 공감능력과 객관 적 시각을 모두 잃게 되며 이는 결국 업무 수행능력을 저하시키 기 때문이다 (Boyle, 2011). 그러므로 효과적인 간호업무를 위해 공감피로에 대한 관리가 중요하지만, 간호영역에서는 다른 직업 에 비해 공감피로에 대한 연구가 활발하게 이루어지지 못하였다 (Boyle, 2011 (Alexander, 2006Chase, 2005Frank & Adkinson, 2007Hooper, Craig, Janvrin, Wetsel, & Reimels, 2010Lauvrud, Nonstad, & Palmstierna, 2009Potter et al, 2010Robins, Meltzer, & Zelikovsky, 2009Yoder, 2010. Dominguez-Gomez & Rutledge, 2009Hooper, et al, 2010, 혹은 결혼상태를 분석하였으며, 직업관련 특성으로는 경력 (Lauvrud, et al, 2009), 근무 분야 (Hooper, et al, 2010Yoder, 2010, 스트레스 정도 (Abendroth & Flannery, 2006) …”

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Emergency Nurses' Professional Quality of Life: Compassion Satisfaction, Burnout, and Secondary Traumatic Stress

Kim

Choi

2012

J Korean Acad Nurs Adm

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Purpose: Professional quality of life is the quality one feels in relation to their work as a helper. The purpose of this study was to describe professional quality of life among emergency nurses. Methods: A total of 15 emergency rooms were selected in three cities. Among 263 nurses working at these emergency rooms, 178 nurses consented to participate in this cross-sectional survey. Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) Scale version 5 was used to measure compassion satisfaction, burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Cluster analysis was used to classify nurses according to professional quality of life. Results: The mean scores (SD) for compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress were 32.12 (5.45), 28.27 (4.28), and 28.20 (5.07), respectively. The result of cluster analysis according to standardized score of compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress yielded three clusters. Over 50% of participants showed low professional quality of life. Nurses who were included in a cluster representing low professional quality of life were younger, had shorter periods of nursing experience, and perceivedlower social support than other cluster. Conclusion: Education or support programs for emergency nurses are needed to enhance their professional quality of life.

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“…In Canada, the enormity of clients' unmet rehabilitative and psychiatric needs under inadequately publicly funded rehabilitative care (Kontos et al, Forthcoming;Kontos et al, 2012) may render staff unable to incorporate grief-related emotion work given existing demands of practice. It is also possible that practitioners' suppression of empathy is, as other studies have shown, a consequence of individual-level behaviours such as compassion fatigue (Robins, Meltzer, & Zelikovsky, 2009), discipline specific training (Papadimitriou, 2008), or institutional policy directives (Kontos et al, Forthcoming). However, our study is unique in linking the suppression of empathy by staff to their distress of identification with the fates of brain injured clients.…”

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Grief, Anger, and Relationality

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Background: Therapeutic emotion work is performed by health care providers as they manage their own feelings as well as those of colleagues and patients as part of efforts to improve the physical and psychosocial health outcomes of patients. It has yet to be examined within the context of traumatic brain injury rehabilitation. Objective: To evaluate the impact of a research-based theater intervention on emotion work practices of neurorehabilitation staff. Research Design: Data were collected at baseline and at 3 and 12 months postintervention in the inpatient neurorehabilitation units of two rehabilitation hospitals in central urban Canada. Subjects: Participants (N = 33) were recruited from nursing, psychology, allied health, recreational therapy, and chaplaincy. Measures: Naturalistic observations (N = 204.5 hr) of a range of structured and unstructured activities in public and private areas, and semistructured interviews (N = 87) were conducted. Results: Preintervention analysis indicated emotion work practices were characterized by stringent self-management of empathy, suppression of client grief, adeptness with client anger, and discomfort with reactions of family and spouses. Postintervention analysis indicated significant staff changes in a relationality orientation, specifically improvements in outreach to homosexual and heterosexual family care partners, and support for sexual orientation and intimacy expression. No improvements were demonstrated in grief support. Conclusion: Emotion work has yet to be the focus of initiatives to improve neurorehabilitative care. Our findings suggest the dramatic arts are well positioned to improve therapeutic emotion work and effect cultures of best practice. Recommendations are made for interprofessional educational initiatives to improve responses to client grief and potential intimate partner violence.

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The Experience of Secondary Traumatic Stress Upon Care Providers Working Within a Children's Hospital

Cited by 126 publications

References 15 publications

The Relationship between War Trauma, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Anxiety Among Health Professionals Working at Emergency Departments in Gaza-Strip

The Relationship between War Trauma, Secondary Traumatic Stress, and Anxiety Among Health Professionals Working at Emergency Departments in Gaza-Strip

Emergency Nurses' Professional Quality of Life: Compassion Satisfaction, Burnout, and Secondary Traumatic Stress

Grief, Anger, and Relationality

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