“…4,5 PC work has numerous emotional demands that may lead to staff stress, including absorption of negative emotional responses, breaking bad news, challenges to personal beliefs, coping with inability to cure, immersion in emotional clashes, poorly defined roles, recurrent exposure to death, working in an area of uncertainty, patient suffering, and secondary trauma. [6][7][8] Ultimately, these demands affect staff emotional management, 9 and it is estimated that 50% of PC staff are at risk of poor psychological outcomes as a result of insufficient ability to cope with these demands. 10 This review aims to examine quantitative studies to explore the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions designed to improve psychological outcomes for PC staff.…”