Critical care nursing is an area specifically dealing with patients experiencing high-dependency and life –threatening conditions. Their role was complex as they were the essential partner in conjunction Intensive Care Unit (ICU) multidisciplinary team need to undertake family liaison duties, such providing support education both patient patient’s family. These circumstances expose high risk of...

OBJECTIVE Physicians are expected to be compassionate. However, most compassion research focuses on compassion fatigue--an outcome variable--rather than examining the specific factors that may interfere with compassion in a physician's practice. This report describes the development and early psychometric data for a self-report questionnaire assessing barriers to compassion among physicians. ...

Although self-compassion is associated with healthier body image and eating behavior, these findings have generally emerged at the between-persons level only. The present study investigated the unique contributions of within-person variability in self-compassion, and between-persons differences in self-compassion, to body image and eating behavior. Over seven days, 92 female college students co...

The purpose of this study was to test if perceived social support and self-compassion will interact reduce the magnitude bivariate relationship (buffering effect) between cumulative trauma symptoms after controlling for gender age among college students. As part a broader research project conducted 2018 2019, we collected data via online surveys from sample 551 undergraduate students at public ...

Evidence suggests that increasing self-compassion is a worthwhile therapeutic target and may be adaptive in the context of trauma recovery. Recently, researchers have noted that particular individuals respond to self-compassion with fear and resistance, a phenomenon known as fear of self-compassion. We argue that fear of self-compassion may increase post-trauma suffering, particularly for indiv...

This study used a survey to investigate the relationship between mindfulness and compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction among 41 volunteers and professionals at an agency serving the traumatically bereaved. Compassion fatigue comprises two aspects: secondary traumatic stress and burnout. Because prior research suggests that compassion satisfaction may protect against compassion fatigue,...