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Health care professionals have elevated rates of burnout and compassion fatigue, which are correlated with poorer quality of life, job performance, and patient care. Since higher rates of self-compassion have been correlated with lower levels of burnout and compassion-fatigue in health care professionals, a growing number of primary studies have evaluated fostering self-compassion through mindfulness-based interventions for this population. To date, no meta-analytic review has quantitatively evaluated this topic. The specific aims of this project were to 1) provide a systematic methodological review of the literature on treatment outcome studies evaluating the extent to which mindfulness-based interventions produce change in self-compassion in health care professionals, and 2) compute meta-analyses and report corresponding effect sizes for included samples. A total of 30 articles (k = 34) were included. Eighteen samples (55%) included health care professionals and fifteen (45%) included professional health care students. Results showed a moderate effect size between pre-post treatment comparisons (δ = .62, SDδ = .25, 95% CI = .54 to .72) for self-compassion and a strong effect size for pre-treatment to follow-up (δ = .78, SDδ = .40, 95% CI = .61 to .97). The effect size comparing post-treatment versus post-control was moderate (δ = .50, SDδ = .20, 95% CI = .34 to .67). Moderators were not explored due to a lack of evidence for heterogeneity. Findings suggest that mindfulness-based interventions help improve self-compassion in health care professionals. This indicates that a variety of mindfulness-based programs may be useful for employees and trainees. Future studies evaluating the impact of increased self-compassion via mindfulness-based interventions on the quality of patient care and job performance are warranted. |
