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Fear and Coping with Death in Intensive Care Nurses: a Structural Model Predictor of Compassion Fatigue
Josué Medina-Fernández1, Nissa Yaing Torres-Soto2, Karina Casco-Gallardo3
1Masters in Nursing, Professor and full-time Researcher, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Quintana Roo, México.
Objectives:
To determine the effect of fear and coping with death on compassion fatigue in nurses working in the intensive care unit.
Methods:
Correlational-predictive design, applied in 245 nurses working in the intensive care unit through intentional sampling. The study applied a personal data card, the Collet-Lester Fear of Death Scale (α=0.72), the Bugen Fell of Death Scale (α=0.82), and the Empathy Exhaustion Scale (α=0.80). Descriptive and inferential statistics were performed, such as Spearman's test and a structural equation model.
Results:
The work had 255 nurses who participated, finding a relationship among fear and coping toward death and compassion fatigue (p<0.01), together with the equation model showing that fear and coping toward death have a positive effect in 43.6% on compassion fatigue.
Conclusions:
Fear and coping with death have an effect on compassion fatigue in nurses working in the intensive care unit, so that when working in a critical area it can cause health effects.
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