SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2016
Compassion Fatigue among Healthcare, Emergency and Community Service Workers: A Systematic Review.
Synthesis in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06191653 (The Efficacy of a Mindful Self-compassion Based Program With Caregivers of Young Offenders Placed at the Portuguese Juvenile Justice Facilities), which is not on this map. Cited by 157 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
The Efficacy of a Mindful Self-compassion Based Program With Caregivers of Young Offenders Placed at the Portuguese Juvenile Justice Facilities
Who cites it
157 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Exploring the experiences, views, and needs of family members of emergency response workers: a systematic review and meta-synthesis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Pooled it
- Interventions to reduce empathy-based stress and enhance compassionate care in mental health wards: a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
- Perceived need and help-seeking for psychosocial support among health and social care professionals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
- Impacts for health and care workers of Covid-19 and other public health emergencies of international concern: living systematic review, meta-analysis and policy recommendations.Human resources for health · 2024Pooled it
- Effectiveness of psychological interventions for compassion fatigue: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of occupational health · 2024Pooled it
- Pooled it
- A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis of Mindfulness and Meditation Research from 1900 to 2021.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Job Demands and Resources Associated with Compassion Fatigue in Mental Health Professionals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Evidence of Workplace Interventions-A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
- Mindfulness meditation for workplace wellness: An evidence map.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2019Pooled it
- Levels of Burnout and Risk Factors in Medical Area Nurses: A Meta-Analytic Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- The effect of acceptance and commitment therapy on work-related rumination and job fatigue of medical emergency and accident management center staff: an experimental study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Trial
- Surviving the storm: A pragmatic non-randomised examination of a brief intervention for disaster-affected health and social care providers.Health & social care in the community · 2022Trial
- Trial
- Perspectives of Businesses on Physical and Virtual Harm Reduction Services in Canada: A Qualitative Study.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026Article
- Influence of Nurses' Perfectionism on Professional Quality of Life: The Role of Submissive Compassion.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Digital Gaze and Vicarious Trauma Among Intensive Care Unit Nurses in Alarm-Monitoring Ecologies: Qualitative Interview Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Role conflict and organizational cynicism in critical care nurses: evidence from a cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- Specialist Rehabilitation Providers' Experiences With an Online Self-Compassion Course: Reflexive Thematic Analysis.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies · 2026Article
- Secondary Traumatic Stress and Positive Adaptation Among Social Workers: The Roles of Burnout, Compassion Satisfaction, and Perceived Social Support in a Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
97 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Compassion fatigue (CF) is stress resulting from exposure to a traumatized individual. CF has been described as the convergence of secondary traumatic stress (STS) and cumulative burnout (BO), a state of physical and mental exhaustion caused by a depleted ability to cope with one's everyday environment. Professionals regularly exposed to the traumatic experiences of the people they service, such as healthcare, emergency and community service workers, are particularly susceptible to developing CF. This can impact standards of patient care, relationships with colleagues, or lead to more serious mental health conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety or depression. A systematic review of the effectiveness of interventions to reduce CF in healthcare, emergency and community service workers was conducted. Thirteen relevant studies were identified, the majority of which were conducted on nurses (n = 10). Three included studies focused on community service workers (social workers, disability sector workers), while no studies targeting emergency service workers were identified. Seven studies reported a significant difference post-intervention in BO (n = 4) or STS (n = 3). This review revealed that evidence of the effectiveness of CF interventions in at-risk health and social care professions is relatively recent. Therefore, we recommend more research to determine how best to protect vulnerable workers at work to prevent not only CF, but also the health and economic consequences related to the ensuing, and more disabling, physical and mental health outcomes.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.