ArticlePM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation2025
Compassion fatigue, work engagement, and psychological distress in health care workers treating patients with long COVID.
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- 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
- Physical and Mental Health of Nurses During COVID-19: A Pilot Study on the Role of Work Engagement and Musculoskeletal Symptoms.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Compassion fatigue, work engagement, and psychological distress in health care workers treating patients with long COVID.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundHealth care workers (HCWs) caring for patients with chronic disease are more likely to experience compassion fatigue. The impacts on HCWs caring for patients with a new complex chronic disease, long COVID, are unknown.
objectiveTo measure compassion fatigue, work engagement, and psychological distress in HCWs caring for patients with long COVID and investigate associations with personal history of long COVID and demographic and occupational characteristics.
designCross-sectional survey study assessing demographic and occupational characteristics, Compassion Fatigue-Short Scale (CF-SS), Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-3 (UWES-3), and Screening Tool for Psychological Distress (STOP-D) in HCWs caring for patients with long COVID.
settingOnline survey from March-June 2023.
participants116 HCWs caring for patients with long COVID.
interventionsNot applicable.
main outcome measuresCF-SS, UWES-3, and STOP-D scores and associations with personal history of long COVID, demographic and occupational factors.
resultsHCWs with a personal history of long COVID had worse scores in all outcome measures compared to those without long COVID. Effects were moderate (UWES-3: η
conclusionsAmong HCWs caring for patients with long COVID, mean scores for all primary outcomes were worse in HCWs with a personal history of long COVID compared to those without. Early career HCWs caring for this population are less engaged and experience greater compassion fatigue whereas those in middle career experience greater psychological distress.
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