• Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.55-65
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• 2022

Caring for patients with cancer is highly stimulating and rewarding, attracting health professionals to the field who enjoy the challenge of managing a complex illness. Health professionals often form close bonds with their patients as they confront ongoing disease or treatment impacts, which may be associated with multiple losses involving function and/or eventual loss of life. Ongoing exposure to patient loss, along with a challenging work setting, may pose significant stress and impact health professionals' well-being. The prevalence rates of burnout and compassion fatigue (CF) are significant, yet health professionals have little knowledge on these topics. A 6-week continuing education program consisting of weekly small-group video-conferencing sessions, case-based learning, and an online community of practice was delivered to health care providers providing oncology care. Program content included personal, organization and team-related risk and protective factors associated with CF, grief models, and strategies to mitigate against CF. Content analysis was completed as part of the program evaluation. In total, 189 participants (93% nurses) completed the program, which was associated with significant improvements in confidence and knowledge of CF and strategies to support self and team resilience. Qualitative themes and vignettes from experiences with the program are presented. Key themes included knowledge gaps, a lack of support related to CF and strategies to support resilience, organization-and team-based factors that can inhibit expression about the impacts of clinical work, the health professional as a "person" in caregiving, and the role of personal variables, self-skill practices, and recommendations for education and support for self and teams.

• 임상간호연구
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.9-19
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• 2017

Purpose: This study aimed to identify multidimensional factors influencing burnout in intensive care unit(ICU) nurses. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional design was used. Data were collected during February 2016 from a convenience sample of 222 tertiary hospital ICU nurses and analyzed using t-test, ANOVA, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis. Results: Burnout correlated positively with compassion fatigue (CF)(r=.37, p<.001), and negatively with compassion satisfaction (CS)(r=-.66, p<.001). The regression model explained 57% of the variance in burnout. For individual characteristics in the model, perceived health status (${\beta}=-.27$, p<.001) and gender (${\beta}=.14$, p=.028) were the most influential factors for ICU nurses' burnout. In the model with added work-related characteristics, nursing environment (${\beta}=-.22$, p=.001), perceived health status (${\beta}= -.20$, p=.001), and satisfaction with department (${\beta}=-.19$, p=.007) were the most influential factors. Finally, for the model with psychological characteristics added, CS (${\beta}=-.56$, p<.001) and CF (${\beta}=.35$, p<.001) were the most influential factors. Conclusion: Results reveal that most ICU nurses have a moderate level of CF and a moderate to high level of CS and burnout, and that individual, work-related and psychological factors are relevant in ICU nurses' burnout. Programs or interventions to reduce burnout should be developed taking into account these multidimensional factors.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.123-130
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• 2022

본 연구는 신종감염병인 COVID-19 팬데믹 상황에서 환자를 간호하는 국내 병원 간호사들의 소진과 관련요인들을 관리하기 위한 방안이 필요함을 제안하였고 COVID-19 유행 기간동안 국내 임상 간호사의 소진과 관련된 요인을 파악하기 위해 체계적 문헌고찰을 실시하였다. 체계적 문헌고찰을 위해 문헌 검색과 분석은 2019년 12월 1일부터 2022년 4월 30일까지 RISS, KISS, DBPIA, 교보스콜라의 데이터베이스를 사용하였고 '임상 간호사의 소진', '간호사의 소진'의 키워드를 사용하였다. 총 55편의 연구 논문이 검색되었고 자료선정기준에 따라 최종 7편의 논문이 선별되었다. 임상간호사 소진 정도와 소진과 관련된 요인을 살펴보면, COVID-19 동안 임상 간호사는 중등도 이상의 소진을 경험하였고 소진과 관련된 요인은 개인적 특성인 신체증상, 우울, 공감만족, 공감피로, 회복탄력성과 직업적 특성인 교대근무와 직무스트레스로 나타났다. 추후 임상 간호사 소진과 관련된 요인들을 조절할 수 있도록 역량 강화 프로그램 개발 및 적용하고 일관성 있는 간호인력 간호인력관리지관리지침이나 정책을 제시하여 간호사 부족 현상을 해소될 수 있기를 기대해 본다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.336-343
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 요양보호사의 감정노동, 직무관련 삶의 질, 서비스 질의 관계를 분석하였다. 연구대상은 전국의 장기요양시설에 근무하는 요양보호사 211명이며, 자기기입식 설문지를 활용하여 조사 하였다. 연구모형은 감정노동(표면행위, 내면행위)을 독립변수, 직무관련 삶의 질(공감만족, 공감피로)을 매개변수, 서비스 질을 종속변수로 구성하여 검증하였다. 모형의 적합성과 서비스 질에 영향을 미치는 각 요인의 직접효과, 간접효과를 검증한 결과 모형의 적합도는 적합한 수준이었으며, 감정노동 표면행위와 내면행위에서 서비스 질로 향하는 직접효과는 통계적으로 유의미하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 직무관련 삶의 질을 매개하여 서비스 질에 영향을 미치는 총 효과는 통계적으로 유의미하였으며, 내면행위와 서비스질의 관계에서는 정적 상관관계, 표면행위와 서비스질의 관계는 부적 상관관계가 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 서비스 질에 영향력이 가장 큰 변인은 직무관련 삶의 질(공감만족)이었다. 이 연구 결과를 토대로 요양보호사의 감정노동과 삶의 질에 대한 임상적, 학문적 관심을 환기시킬 필요성을 제안하였다.

• 대한불안의학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.65-70
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• 2010

Objectives : Indirect contact with trauma may occur when a person empathically listens to detailed descriptions, exposing the person to intense emotional pain from trauma victims. Although less severe than direct trauma, indirectly traumatized persons may experience the same fear, rage, and despair as direct trauma victims. This phenomenon has been variously termed vicarious trauma, traumatic countertransference, burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress. Using a psychiatric symptoms questionnaires, this study investigated the effects of indirect exposure to co-worker's trauma on the mental health of firefighters who had not directly experienced traumatic events in the previous year. Methods : We administered self-report questionnaires, such as the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IESR) and Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT), to firefighters working at two fire stations in a metropolitan city. We analyzed 188 of 232 collected surveys, after excluding falsely entered data (28 cases) and questionnaires by directly-traumatized victims (16 cases). Results : Alcohol consumption and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, as determined by the AUDIT and IES-R, were significantly higher in the indirectly-traumatized group. The ratio of high-risk members scoring higher than 23 in IES-R was larger in the indirectly traumatized group, although this was not statistically significant. Conclusion : Alcohol consumption was significantly higher in the indirectly traumatized group. This group also included more members at high risk for PTSD. Further research, with a larger group of indirectly traumatized firefighters and ongoing investigation of PTSD development and other psychiatric symptoms, is needed.

• 성인간호학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.175-183
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• 2000

The study was done by applying a phenomenological study, which is qualitative research methods, in order to understand the meaning of the lived experiences, to confirm and describe the meaning structure, and to prepare nursing interventive strategies centering around the meanings of the inpatients' families in the intensive care units. In the study, the family members were the main important nursing providers for in the inpatients' who were admitted in the neurosurgical intensive care unit in K-university hospital and who agreed to participate in the study after being given on explanation about the purpose of the study. The data were collected from the seven participants who had feelings of trust and intimacy favorable toward the researcher as they were families of patients who had been cared for by the researcher in the ICU where the researcher has been assigned. The data were collected from April to October, 1999. The participants described their experiences as candidly as possible. The researcher described closely the lived experiences with their own words and the observations of the researcher. A tape recorder was used with the consent of the participants to prevent nursing information and communication. The analysis of the data was made through the phenomenological analytic method suggested by Giorgi; as an unit of description, which include the participants' expressions and the researcher's observations, the analysis was used based on the data described from the expressions of the participants and the details of observations of the researcher. The conclusions of the study were as follows : The meanings of the lived experience of the inpatients' families in the ICU was confirmed by indepth interviews and observations including these of the participatants : (1) Psychological impact: confusion, impatience, surprise, insensibility; (2) Physical suffering: fatigue, discomfort, indigestion; (3) Psychological suffering: heartbreaking emotion, anxiety, annoyance, fear, compassion, grief; (4) Economical suffering: economical difficulties; (5) Psychological disagreement: escape from reality, personnel avoidance, grudge, powerlessness, carefulness, transposition of life-tract, abandonment, role-crisis, hope, lack of understanding, regret, feeling of ambivalence(progressive process, medical personnel interest); (6) Psychological dependency; self-reliance group support, family support, religious support; (7) Psychological acceptance; acquaintance, gratitude, reassurance; The study will offer better understanding of experiences therefore, based on the experiences confirmed by the study, it may facilitate more appropriate nursing interventive strategies for health maintenance and to prevent occurrence of possible problems with the inpatients' families in the ICUs.