Compassion fatigue in nurses and influencing factors.

KRUSKAL-Wallis Test; STATISTICS; WORK experience (Employment); ACADEMIC medical centers; RESEARCH methodology; CROSS-sectional method; AGE distribution; ONE-way analysis of variance; MANN Whitney U Test; PSYCHOLOGY of nurses; RISK assessment; COMPARATIVE studies; SECONDARY traumatic stress; PUBLIC hospitals; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; JUDGMENT sampling; MARITAL status; DATA analysis software; DATA analysis; EDUCATIONAL attainment

Purpose: To investigate compassion fatigue in nurses and the factors influencing the condition. Design and Methods: This descriptive, comparative, and cross‐sectional study was conducted in state and university hospitals in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. A purposive sampling method was used. Findings: Almost all of the nurses have experienced low to moderate levels of compassion fatigue. Factors affecting the severity include age, years of seniority, service, marital status, children, and type of hospital. Practice Implications: Recommendations for reducing compassion fatigue are as follows: establishing clinical practice policies that reduce the development and possible consequences of compassion fatigue in addition to education and resilience training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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