ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2021
Professional Quality of Life in Research Involving Laboratory Animals.
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- Attending veterinarians improve the research capability and psychological well-being of researchers in animal research institutes.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Article
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- Compassion Fatigue and Coping Mechanisms of Laboratory Animal Professionals from Europe, China, and Japan.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2022Article
- A survey on the use of mice, pigs, dogs and monkeys as animal models in biomedical research in Spain.Laboratory animal research · 2022Article
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Abstract
Many workers contribute to the success of animal welfare and study outcomes in biomedical research. However, the professional quality of life (ProQoL) of those who work with laboratory animals has not been explored in Spain. To this end, we adapted the ProQoL scale to the Spanish population working with laboratory animals. Participants were contacted by email and asked to complete an anonymous on-line questionnaire. The study comprised a total of 498 participants, 12.4% welfare officers/veterinarians, 19.5% caretaker/technicians, 13.9% principal investigators, 20.7% investigators, 13.6% research technicians, and 19.9% PhD students. The adapted scale revealed very good reliability and internal validity, providing information about two different subscales, compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue. Animal-facility personnel showed higher total ProQoL and compassion-satisfaction scores than researchers; PhD students showed the lowest scores. Thus, our results indicate that job category is a contributing factor in perceived professional quality of life. We observed that compassion satisfaction is negatively associated with the perceived animal stress/pain. Participants reporting poorer compassion satisfaction also reported lower social-support scores. Overall, our ProQoL scale is a useful tool for analyzing the professional quality of life in the Spanish population, and may help to design future interventions to improve workplace wellbeing in Spain and other Spanish-speaking populations.
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