ArticleChild abuse & neglect2022
COVID-19 patient care predicts nurses' parental burnout and child abuse: Mediating effects of compassion fatigue.
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- Treating Parental Burnout: Impact and Particularities of a Mindfulness- and Compassion-Based Approach.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Compassion fatigue in healthcare providers: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- [Association between maternal job burnout and adolescent depression: the chain mediating effect of maternal depression and parenting style].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2023Article
- It's What We Do: Experiences of UK Nurses Working during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on Practice, Identity and Resilience.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Two years into COVID-19: What do we know so far about child maltreatment in times of a pandemic and what else should be explored?Child abuse & neglect · 2022Article
- Assessing positive adaptation during a global crisis: The development and validation of the family positive adaptation during COVID-19 scale.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Artificial intelligence technologies and compassion in healthcare: A systematic scoping review.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundNurses who are also parents may be at risk not only for professional compassion fatigue, but also parental burnout - a reliable and valid predictor of child abuse and neglect. In support, recent research reveals that parents' COVID-19 related stressors predicted elevated potential for child abuse (Katz and Fallon, 2021).
objectiveWe explored the harmful effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses' parental burnout, child abuse, and child neglect, as mediated by compassion fatigue (i.e., a combination of job burnout and secondary traumatic stress). PARTICIPANTS AND
settingParticipants were 244 nurses (M age = 32.4; 87% female) who were parents of young children (age 12 or under) recruited via chain referral sampling.
methodsParticipants completed an anonymous survey assessing the extent to which they care for COVID-19 patients, are exposed to patients suffering and dying from COVID-19, and have lost family income due to COVID-19. We also measured their compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, substance abuse, spouse conflict, parental burnout, child abuse, and child neglect.
resultsAs hypothesized, direct care of COVID-19 patients, exposure to patient death and suffering due to COVID-19, and family income loss due to COVID-19 predicted greater compassion fatigue, which in turn, predicted greater parental burnout, child abuse, child neglect, spouse conflict, and substance abuse, (IEs ≥ 0.06, all ps < 0.05). Also, as compassion satisfaction increased, parental burnout, child abuse, child neglect, spouse conflict, and substance abuse decreased, rs ≥ -0.203, ps < 0.01.
conclusionsTheoretical implications and practical implications for medical practice and child abuse prevention are discussed.
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