In the Face of Death: Years of Experience and Coping Strategies as Predictors of Compassion Fatigue in Pediatric and Neonatal Nurses in Lebanon
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2021
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The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the relationship between the specific coping skills, namely, avoidance, seeking social support, positive thinking, and problem solving as well as years of work experience on one hand, and compassion fatigue on the other, among Lebanese pediatric and neonatal intensive care unit nurses (PICU/NICU) nurses dealing with the death of their pediatric/neonatal patient. A purposeful and convenient sample of 97 registered Lebanese PICU/NICU nurses participated in the study. The cross-sectional survey included a demographic questionnaire, the “Brief COPE” Scale and the “Compassion Fatigue Short Scale.” A hierarchical multiple regression analysis was used to determine the relationships between the variables, while controlling for other variables. The results showed that, as hypothesized, avoidance was a strong positive predictor of compassion fatigue however positive thinking, problem solving, and years of work experience were not. Also, contrary to the hypothesis, seeking social support turned out to be a significant positive predictor instead of a negative one. We concluded that providing nurses with the appropriate type of social support by the right people is essential if support were to make a difference. Future studies should aim to understand what positive thinking and problem solving really mean for Lebanese nurses.
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Cattan, R. (2021). In the Face of Death: Years of Experience and Coping Strategies as Predictors of Compassion Fatigue in Pediatric and Neonatal Nurses in Lebanon (SBS thesis, Haigazian University)