ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Empathy, Burnout, and Attitudes towards Mental Illness among Spanish Mental Health Nurses.
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- Impact of Subdomains of Affective and Cognitive Empathy on Burnout Syndrome in Nurses: A Meta-Analysis.International nursing review · 2026Pooled it
- Empathy and burnout in healthcare professionals: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Stigma Among Nurses Toward Individuals with Mental Health Conditions: An Integrative Review of Qualitative and Quantitative Studies.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Review
- Empathy and Burnout Among Nurses: a Cross-Sectional Study in a University Hospital in Central Greece.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Article
- A Chinese culture-specific intervention to decrease nursing students' stigma towards schizophrenia: a pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Language models in digital psychiatry: challenges with simplification of healthcare materials.NPP - digital psychiatry and neuroscience · 2025Article
- Stigmatizing attitudes and predictors of empathy toward mentally ill patients among psychiatric and mental health nurses.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Psychometric Properties and Gender Invariance of the Positive Mental Health Scale in Spanish Nurses During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Nursing open · 2025Article
- A Burnt-Out Health: Stigma towards Mental Health Problems as a Predictor of Burnout in a Sample of Community Social Healthcare Professionals.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Perspectives of adult patients with mental health disorders on the relationship with nurses: a focus group study.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- "Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Mental health nurses, together with psychiatrists, are the healthcare professionals who display the highest levels of empathy and the best attitudes towards patients with mental disorders. However, burnout is a common problem among these professionals. The aim of our study is to describe the association between empathy, burnout, and attitudes towards patients with mental disorders among mental health nurses in Spain. A descriptive cross-sectional design was used involving a sample of 750 specialist nurses working in mental health facilities in Spain. An intentional, non-probability, non-discriminative, exponential snowball sampling method was used. The Jefferson Scale of Empathy, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, and the Community Attitudes towards Mental Illness Inventory were used to measure the study variables. A positive correlation was observed between empathy and all the study variables, with the exception of the personal accomplishment dimension of burnout and the social restrictiveness and authoritarianism dimensions of attitudes towards mental illness, where a negative relation was observed. Our findings suggest that empathy is associated with an increase in positive attitudes towards patients with mental disorders, decreasing associated stigma, but did not act as a protective factor against burnout in the study sample.
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