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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/IJoC.2020.16.3.045

Occupational Therapists' Professional Quality of Life

Chung, Jaeyeop (Department of Occupational therapy, Yeoju institute of technology)

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International Journal of Contents / v.16, no.3, 2020 , pp. 45-50 More about this Journal

Abstract

Occupational therapists (OTs) interface patients much longer than other healthcare workers and, thus, are likely to experience a high level of stress because of work, physical fatigue, lack of professional knowledge and skills, and problematic relationships with patients, etc. This study examined the quality of the lives of OTs and the workplace which is an influential factor. This study recruited 200 OTs and used a professional quality of life scale. We found that, only 27.0% experience high levels of compassion satisfaction (CS) and 80.5% and 74.5% experience high or average levels of burnout (BO) and secondary traumatic stress (STS) of compassion fatigue (CF), respectively. We discovered that CS was higher in temporary employees; and CF was higher in females, subjects in their 30s; and those working at general hospitals. Also, BO was higher in those with one to five years of clinical experience and regular employees. Last, STS was higher in the group without stable income. This study verified that clinical experience is a critical factor that reduces BO, and excessive workload outside of treatment lowers the professional quality of life. This suggests that work environment and regulations related to OTs must be improved to increase CS and reduce CF.

Keywords

Burnout; Compassion fatigue; Compassion satisfaction; Occupational therapists; Professional quality of life;

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