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<p>Mental health professionals (MHPs) often provide care with empathy and compassion, which demands significant effort and energy. MHPs are at a risk of compassion fatigue and burnout due to this ‘cost of caring’ for others. The study examines the sex-based differences in compassion fatigue, coping styles, and resilience among MHPs, as well as the relationships among these three variables. Participants (N = 415 MHPs; Male = 103, Female = 312), selected through purposive sampling, were asked to complete the Professional Quality of Life Scale-R-5 (ProQOL), Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced Inventory (Brief-COPE), and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-10). The results revealed that female MHPs exhibited higher levels of compassion satisfaction, whereas male MHPs demonstrated greater resilience. Results revealed a negative correlation between resilience &amp; burnout, resilience &amp; secondary traumatic stress, problem-focused coping &amp; burnout, and avoidant coping &amp; compassion satisfaction. Positive correlation was found between resilience &amp; compassion satisfaction, problem-focused coping &amp; compassion satisfaction, problem-focused coping &amp; secondary traumatic stress, problem- focused coping &amp; resilience, emotion-focused coping &amp; burnout, emotion-focused coping &amp; secondary traumatic stress, avoidant coping &amp; burnout, and avoidant coping &amp; secondary traumatic stress. MHPs had high compassion satisfaction, moderate to low burnout and secondary traumatic stress.</p>

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Balancing the Costs of Caring: A study on Compassion Fatigue Among Mental Health Professionals

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    2025年5月8日

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  • Malini Roy,
  • Rekha Wagani,
  • Abdul Raffie Naik

摘要

Mental health professionals (MHPs) often provide care with empathy and compassion, which demands significant effort and energy. MHPs are at a risk of compassion fatigue and burnout due to this ‘cost of caring’ for others. The study examines the sex-based differences in compassion fatigue, coping styles, and resilience among MHPs, as well as the relationships among these three variables. Participants (N = 415 MHPs; Male = 103, Female = 312), selected through purposive sampling, were asked to complete the Professional Quality of Life Scale-R-5 (ProQOL), Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced Inventory (Brief-COPE), and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-10). The results revealed that female MHPs exhibited higher levels of compassion satisfaction, whereas male MHPs demonstrated greater resilience. Results revealed a negative correlation between resilience & burnout, resilience & secondary traumatic stress, problem-focused coping & burnout, and avoidant coping & compassion satisfaction. Positive correlation was found between resilience & compassion satisfaction, problem-focused coping & compassion satisfaction, problem-focused coping & secondary traumatic stress, problem- focused coping & resilience, emotion-focused coping & burnout, emotion-focused coping & secondary traumatic stress, avoidant coping & burnout, and avoidant coping & secondary traumatic stress. MHPs had high compassion satisfaction, moderate to low burnout and secondary traumatic stress.