Secondary Traumatization in Pediatric Healthcare Providers

Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Secondary Traumatic Stress

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13630307
AutoresPatrick Meadors (0000-0002-1047-8636, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, autor de correspondencia), Angela L Lamson (0000-0002-9045-1475, East Carolina University), Angela Lamson (East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina), Mel Swanson (East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina), M White (0000-0002-2963-3106, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina), Mark B White (0000-0002-7402-5513, East Carolina University), Natalia Sira (0000-0002-3248-0593, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina)
Año2009
Volumen60
Número2
Páginas103-128
Fecha de publicación2009-12-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/om.60.2.a
PMID20222232
OpenAlexW2135174252
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas37

The primary aim for this research was to explore the overlap and differences between the concepts related to secondary traumatization: posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), secondary traumatic stress (STS), compassion fatigue (CF), and burnout (BRN). A secondary aim for this research was to examine the impact of secondary traumatization and some of the personal and professional elements that affect how pediatric healthcare providers experience PTSD, STS, CF, and BRN. An online survey was sent via e-mail to numerous list serves for healthcare providers who had worked on PICU, NICU, or PEDS units within the last year. The analyses revealed that a significant overlap existed between the terms of STS, PTSD, BRN, CS, and CF for PICU, NICU, and PEDS providers. However, a hierarchical linear regression revealed a significant amount of unique contributions to the variance in CF based on each of the measured concepts. Despite previous literature that indicates that the terms STS and CF can be used interchangeably, the two most prominent measures utilized in the assessment of CF and STS are actually capturing at least some unique elements. Given these results, future researchers should examine and conceptualize the difference in etiology, prevalence, symptoms, and treatment efficacy for CF and STS as separate but related entities and then return their focus to understanding secondary traumatization in healthcare providers

Burnout · Compassion fatigue · Empathy · Health care · Multilevel model · Psychiatry · Clinical Psychology · Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout · Medicine · Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health