Palliative care professionals' inner life: Exploring the relationships among awareness, self-care, and compassion satisfaction and fatigue, burnout, and coping with death

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 200-207

  Sansó, Noemí ^a,b   Galiana, Laura ^c   Oliver, Amparo ^c   Pascual, Antonio ^d   Sinclair, Shane ^e   Benito, Enric ^a  

^a Balearic Islands Palliative Care Regional Program   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

awareness; burn out; compassion fatigue; compassion satisfaction; Palliative care professionals; self care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BURNOUT; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEATH; FATIGUE; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SATISFACTION; SELF CARE; SPIRITUAL CARE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPASSION FATIGUE; EMPATHY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SPAIN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AWARENESS; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; COMPASSION FATIGUE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEATH; EMPATHY; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PALLIATIVE CARE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; SPAIN;

EID: 84938419359     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2015.02.013     Document Type: Article

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