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Self-Compassion Interventions to Target Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review
Healthcare professionals’ wellbeing can be adversely affected by the intense demands of, and the secondary traumatic stress associated with, their job. Self-compassion is associated with positive wellbeing outcomes across a variety of workforce populations and is potentially an important skill for h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10298083/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37372696 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20126109 |
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author | Rushforth, Annabel Durk, Mia Rothwell-Blake, Gabby A. A. Kirkman, Ann Ng, Fiona Kotera, Yasuhiro |
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description | Healthcare professionals’ wellbeing can be adversely affected by the intense demands of, and the secondary traumatic stress associated with, their job. Self-compassion is associated with positive wellbeing outcomes across a variety of workforce populations and is potentially an important skill for healthcare workers, as it offers a way of meeting one’s own distress with kindness and understanding. This systematic review aimed to synthesise and evaluate the utility of self-compassion interventions in reducing secondary traumatic stress in a healthcare worker population. Eligible articles were identified from research databases, including ProQuest, PsycINFO, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar, and EBSCO. The quality of non-randomised and randomised trials was assessed using the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale. The literature search yielded 234 titles, from which 6 studies met the inclusion criteria. Four studies reported promising effects of self-compassion training for secondary traumatic stress in a healthcare population, although these did not use controls. The methodological quality of these studies was medium. This highlights a research gap in this area. Three of these four studies recruited workers from Western countries and one recruited from a non-Western country. The Professional Quality of Life Scale was used to evaluate secondary traumatic stress in all studies. The findings show preliminary evidence that self-compassion training may improve secondary traumatic stress in healthcare professional populations; however, there is a need for greater methodological quality in this field and controlled trials. The findings also show that the majority of research was conducted in Western countries. Future research should focus on a broader range of geographical locations to include non-Western countries. |
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spelling | pubmed-102980832023-06-28 Self-Compassion Interventions to Target Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review Rushforth, Annabel Durk, Mia Rothwell-Blake, Gabby A. A. Kirkman, Ann Ng, Fiona Kotera, Yasuhiro Int J Environ Res Public Health Systematic Review Healthcare professionals’ wellbeing can be adversely affected by the intense demands of, and the secondary traumatic stress associated with, their job. Self-compassion is associated with positive wellbeing outcomes across a variety of workforce populations and is potentially an important skill for healthcare workers, as it offers a way of meeting one’s own distress with kindness and understanding. This systematic review aimed to synthesise and evaluate the utility of self-compassion interventions in reducing secondary traumatic stress in a healthcare worker population. Eligible articles were identified from research databases, including ProQuest, PsycINFO, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar, and EBSCO. The quality of non-randomised and randomised trials was assessed using the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale. The literature search yielded 234 titles, from which 6 studies met the inclusion criteria. Four studies reported promising effects of self-compassion training for secondary traumatic stress in a healthcare population, although these did not use controls. The methodological quality of these studies was medium. This highlights a research gap in this area. Three of these four studies recruited workers from Western countries and one recruited from a non-Western country. The Professional Quality of Life Scale was used to evaluate secondary traumatic stress in all studies. The findings show preliminary evidence that self-compassion training may improve secondary traumatic stress in healthcare professional populations; however, there is a need for greater methodological quality in this field and controlled trials. The findings also show that the majority of research was conducted in Western countries. Future research should focus on a broader range of geographical locations to include non-Western countries. MDPI 2023-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10298083/ /pubmed/37372696 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20126109 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Systematic Review Rushforth, Annabel Durk, Mia Rothwell-Blake, Gabby A. A. Kirkman, Ann Ng, Fiona Kotera, Yasuhiro Self-Compassion Interventions to Target Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review |
title | Self-Compassion Interventions to Target Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review |
title_full | Self-Compassion Interventions to Target Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review |
title_fullStr | Self-Compassion Interventions to Target Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Self-Compassion Interventions to Target Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review |
title_short | Self-Compassion Interventions to Target Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review |
title_sort | self-compassion interventions to target secondary traumatic stress in healthcare workers: a systematic review |
topic | Systematic Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10298083/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37372696 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20126109 |
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