The Relationship Between Present-Centered Awareness and Attention, Burnout, and Compassion Fatigue in Oncology Health Professionals
| Autor: | Margaret I. Fitch, Penelope Schofield, Thomas W. Butler, Sahil Suleman, Georgia Halkett, Laura Inhestern, Jamie Hegel, Lauren J. Breen, Clare S. Rees |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Oncology
050103 clinical psychology medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Mindfulness animal structures Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject education Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Compassion Empathy Burnout 050105 experimental psychology Internal medicine Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attention Disengagement theory Emotional exhaustion Applied Psychology media_common Original Paper Compassion fatigue Public health 05 social sciences Present-centered awareness Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Mindfulness |
| ISSN: | 1868-8535 1868-8527 |
| Popis: | Objectives Oncology health professionals experience high levels of burnout and compassion fatigue, affecting their health and the care they provide. This study aimed to establish whether present-centered awareness and attention (a component of mindfulness) is uniquely associated with burnout and compassion fatigue in oncology professionals. Methods An international sample of oncology professionals (n = 118) completed an online questionnaire with validated measures of present-centered awareness and attention, empathy, compassion fatigue, and burnout. Hierarchical multiple regressions were used to model relations among the independent variable (present-centered awareness and attention) and the criterion variables of burnout (disengagement, exhaustion) and compassion fatigue (compassion satisfaction, compassion burnout, secondary traumatic stress) after statistically controlling for empathy, age, gender, years of experience, and patient contact hours. Results Mean hours of patient contact per week was 23.52 (SD = 13.62), with 26 (22.03%) reporting 40 h or more. Higher hours of patient contact per week were positively associated with secondary traumatic stress. Present-centered awareness and attention was associated with lower disengagement, lower emotional exhaustion, higher compassion satisfaction, lower secondary traumatic stress, and lower compassion burnout. In each model, present-centered awareness accounted for unique variance after controlling for age, gender, years of experience, patient contact hours per week, and empathy scores. The amount of unique variance accounted for by present-centered awareness ranged from 4 to 10%. Conclusions Oncology professionals reporting higher levels of present-centered awareness and attention reported higher compassion satisfaction and lower secondary traumatic stress, compassion burnout, exhaustion, and disengagement. Promoting present-centered awareness may be a mechanism that contributes to less burnout in oncology professionals. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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