The purpose of this study is to assess the level of compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction among nurses working at Ministry of Health hospitals. It will also examine the significant demographics, work-related contributing factors, and the impact of a mindfulness self-care program on nurses' compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction level.
A cross-sectional design will be used for the first stage of the study. A pre-post- intervention study will be utilized for the second stage of the study. A convenience sample of 361 nurses from six governmental hospitals of the Ministry of Health will be enrolled for the first stage of the study. A minimum of (50) participants, from the hospital with the highest level of compassion fatigue will be included in the intervention stage of the study. An integrated guided mindfulness intervention will be implemented, which will include a 2-day face-to-face workshop and self-practice activities. The Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL), version 5 (Stamm, 2010), which measures compassion fatigue, will be used in addition to the participants demographic and work-related contributing factors.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
50
Participants will attend 2-days face-to-face workshop on mindfulness-based self-care (MBSC) program. After the completion of the 2-days workshop, the participants will be required to complete self-mindfulness practices within a period of 4 weeks
MoH Regional Hospital
Rustaq, South Batinah, Oman
Compassion Fatigue
The compassion fatigue level will be measured using The Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) scale, version 5. The ProQOL is a 5-point Likert well-known scale (1= never, 5= very often) that utilized globally to assess the compassion fatigue (Babaei \& Haratian, 2020; Hooper et al., 2010). The instrument consists of three subscales, which are compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. The scale is constructed of 30-items; where 10 items measuring each subscale (i.e. compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress). The response of instruments' items are based on the respondent's opinions and feelings for the last 30 days (Babaei \& Haratian, 2020). The cut-scores are set around the 25th and 75th percentiles. The instrument demonstrated a good construct validity as well as good internal consistency of reliability for each subscale with Cronbach alphas of 0.87, 0.72, and 0.80, respectively (Hooper et al., 2010).
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of Mindfulness-self practices at 4 weeks
Compassion Satisfaction
Compassion satisfaction level will be measured by The Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) scale, version 5. The instrument consists of three subscales, which are compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. The response of instruments' items are based on the respondent's opinions and feelings for the last 30 days (Babaei \& Haratian, 2020). The cut-scores are set around the 25th and 75th percentiles. The instrument demonstrated a good construct validity as well as good internal consistency of reliability for each subscale with Cronbach alphas of 0.87, 0.72, and 0.80, respectively (Hooper et al., 2010).
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of mindfulness-self practice sessions at 4 weeks
Demographic and work-related characteristics
The demographic and work-related characteristics will be assessed using a developed questionnaire for the purpose of this study. The questionnaire includes items of age, gender, marital status, education degree, years of experience, and working department/word/unit.
Time frame: At the end of mindfulness-self practice at 4 weeks
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