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Validation of the Compassion Fatigue Short Scale among Chinese medical workers and firefighters: a cross-sectional study

OBJECTIVES: To examine the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the C-Compassion Fatigue (CF)-Short Scale among 4 independent samples of Chinese emergency workers (medical workers and firefighters). DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SETTING: 6 hospitals in Zhejiang Province and 12 fire stations...

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Autores principales: Sun, Binghai, Hu, Mengna, Yu, Shitian, Jiang, Yiru, Lou, Baona
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4932253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27363817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011279
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author Sun, Binghai
Hu, Mengna
Yu, Shitian
Jiang, Yiru
Lou, Baona
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Hu, Mengna
Yu, Shitian
Jiang, Yiru
Lou, Baona
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description OBJECTIVES: To examine the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the C-Compassion Fatigue (CF)-Short Scale among 4 independent samples of Chinese emergency workers (medical workers and firefighters). DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SETTING: 6 hospitals in Zhejiang Province and 12 fire stations in Shanghai. PARTICIPANTS: Emergency workers (medical and firefighters) were consecutively recruited and divided into 4 groups: the MW1 group (medical workers, n=167), the FF1 group (firefighters, n=157), the MW2 group (medical workers, n=265) and the FF2 group (firefighters, n=231). INTERVENTIONS: All patients completed the C-CF-Short Scale to identify factors associated with compassion fatigue. The MW1 and FF1 groups were used for the exploratory analyses. The MW2 and FF2 groups were used for the confirmatory factor analyses. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Factor loading, correlations with previously validated questionnaires (the Ego-Resiliency Scale, the Social Support Questionnaire and the Job Pressure Scale) and Cronbach's α coefficient were tested for each factor. RESULTS: The C-CF-Short Scale demonstrated excellent construct validity and good internal consistency. Specifically, the results of exploratory factor analyses in the MW1 and FF1 groups showed that secondary trauma and job burnout were associated with compassion fatigue in these emergency workers. The confirmatory factor analyses in the MW2 and FF2 groups indicated that all the fit indices of the 2-factor model were satisfactory. Finally, the Cronbach's α coefficient of each factor was excellent. CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that the C-CF-Short Scale has good psychometric properties and can be applied to study Chinese emergency workers.
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spelling pubmed-49322532016-07-12 Validation of the Compassion Fatigue Short Scale among Chinese medical workers and firefighters: a cross-sectional study Sun, Binghai Hu, Mengna Yu, Shitian Jiang, Yiru Lou, Baona BMJ Open Mental Health OBJECTIVES: To examine the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the C-Compassion Fatigue (CF)-Short Scale among 4 independent samples of Chinese emergency workers (medical workers and firefighters). DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SETTING: 6 hospitals in Zhejiang Province and 12 fire stations in Shanghai. PARTICIPANTS: Emergency workers (medical and firefighters) were consecutively recruited and divided into 4 groups: the MW1 group (medical workers, n=167), the FF1 group (firefighters, n=157), the MW2 group (medical workers, n=265) and the FF2 group (firefighters, n=231). INTERVENTIONS: All patients completed the C-CF-Short Scale to identify factors associated with compassion fatigue. The MW1 and FF1 groups were used for the exploratory analyses. The MW2 and FF2 groups were used for the confirmatory factor analyses. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Factor loading, correlations with previously validated questionnaires (the Ego-Resiliency Scale, the Social Support Questionnaire and the Job Pressure Scale) and Cronbach's α coefficient were tested for each factor. RESULTS: The C-CF-Short Scale demonstrated excellent construct validity and good internal consistency. Specifically, the results of exploratory factor analyses in the MW1 and FF1 groups showed that secondary trauma and job burnout were associated with compassion fatigue in these emergency workers. The confirmatory factor analyses in the MW2 and FF2 groups indicated that all the fit indices of the 2-factor model were satisfactory. Finally, the Cronbach's α coefficient of each factor was excellent. CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that the C-CF-Short Scale has good psychometric properties and can be applied to study Chinese emergency workers. BMJ Publishing Group 2016-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4932253/ /pubmed/27363817 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011279 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://www.bmj.com/company/products-services/rights-and-licensing/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Sun, Binghai
Hu, Mengna
Yu, Shitian
Jiang, Yiru
Lou, Baona
Validation of the Compassion Fatigue Short Scale among Chinese medical workers and firefighters: a cross-sectional study
title Validation of the Compassion Fatigue Short Scale among Chinese medical workers and firefighters: a cross-sectional study
title_full Validation of the Compassion Fatigue Short Scale among Chinese medical workers and firefighters: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Validation of the Compassion Fatigue Short Scale among Chinese medical workers and firefighters: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Validation of the Compassion Fatigue Short Scale among Chinese medical workers and firefighters: a cross-sectional study
title_short Validation of the Compassion Fatigue Short Scale among Chinese medical workers and firefighters: a cross-sectional study
title_sort validation of the compassion fatigue short scale among chinese medical workers and firefighters: a cross-sectional study
topic Mental Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4932253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27363817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011279
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