ArticlePloS one2023
Compassion and decision fatigue among healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic in a Colombian sample.
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- An integrative review on unveiling the causes and effects of decision fatigue to develop a multi-domain conceptual framework.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Pooled it
- Mapping global evidence on compassion fatigue among healthcare workers during COVID-19: insights and implications for future preparedness - a scoping review.Journal of global health · 2026Article
- The experience of empathy fatigue among emergency department nurses: a qualitative meta-synthesis.BMC nursing · 2026Article
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- Decision fatigue of surrogate decision-makers: a scoping review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025Article
- Compassion fatigue and coping strategies among healthcare providers in Central Uganda: a facility-based cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Decision Fatigue in Nursing: An Evolutionary Concept Analysis.Health science reports · 2025Review
- Clinical decision fatigue: a systematic and scoping review with meta-synthesis.Family medicine and community health · 2025Article
- Association between nursing work environment and decision fatigue among clinical nurses: a moderated mediation analysis on the roles of job stress and resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Relationship between the sense of nursing professional pride and adversity quotient, grit levels among nurses in blood purification centers: a multicenter cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Being compassionate and empathic while making rational decisions is expected from healthcare workers across different contexts. But the daily challenges that these workers face, aggravated by the recent COVID-19 crisis, can give rise to compassion and decision fatigue, which affects not only their ability to meet these expectations but has a significant negative impact on their wellbeing. Hence, it is vital to identify factors associated to their exhaustion. Here, we sought to describe levels of compassion and decision fatigue during the pandemic, and to identify factors related to these forms of exhaustion. We collected data using self-reported questionnaires to measure compassion fatigue, decision fatigue, and grit in five intervals from April to November, 2020 (N = 856). Our results showed a negative correlation between grit and compassion and decision fatigue. We also found that under the circumstances studied grit tends to be higher in technicians, nurses, other professionals (psychologists, social workers), and workers at the Emergency Room (ER), and lower in general practitioners. Compassion fatigue tend to be higher for technicians, whereas decision fatigue was lower for specialists, general practitioners, and technicians, and higher for those working at private hospitals.
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