Levels of vocational satisfaction, burnout and compassion fatigue of health professionals working in pediatric clinics

BACKGROUND: Burnout and compassion fatigue are affecting the quality of professional life. AIM: To investigate the levels of vocational satisfaction, burnout, and compassion fatigue and factors that may be related to health professionals working in children’s clinics. METHODS: The study sample was i...

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Autores principales: Koyuncu, Oğuz, Arslan, Sevda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022
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Basic Study
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8771315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35096545
http://dx.doi.org/10.5409/wjcp.v11.i1.38
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description BACKGROUND: Burnout and compassion fatigue are affecting the quality of professional life. AIM: To investigate the levels of vocational satisfaction, burnout, and compassion fatigue and factors that may be related to health professionals working in children’s clinics. METHODS: The study sample was in the west of Turkey. Data were collected using the questionnaire form and the quality of life scale for employees. RESULTS: The findings obtained in this study showed that the level of vocational satisfaction of female health professionals and the burnout level of male health professionals were higher. The professional satisfaction of the doctors was lower than that of the nurses and midwives, and the mean score of burnout and fatigue was high. CONCLUSION: Further studies are needed on this topic to help improve the factors that may affect the professional quality of life of health professionals.
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spelling pubmed-87713152022-01-28 Levels of vocational satisfaction, burnout and compassion fatigue of health professionals working in pediatric clinics Koyuncu, Oğuz Arslan, Sevda World J Clin Pediatr Basic Study BACKGROUND: Burnout and compassion fatigue are affecting the quality of professional life. AIM: To investigate the levels of vocational satisfaction, burnout, and compassion fatigue and factors that may be related to health professionals working in children’s clinics. METHODS: The study sample was in the west of Turkey. Data were collected using the questionnaire form and the quality of life scale for employees. RESULTS: The findings obtained in this study showed that the level of vocational satisfaction of female health professionals and the burnout level of male health professionals were higher. The professional satisfaction of the doctors was lower than that of the nurses and midwives, and the mean score of burnout and fatigue was high. CONCLUSION: Further studies are needed on this topic to help improve the factors that may affect the professional quality of life of health professionals. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8771315/ /pubmed/35096545 http://dx.doi.org/10.5409/wjcp.v11.i1.38 Text en ©The Author(s) 2022. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (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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