Impact of compassion support program on compassion fatigue, job satisfaction and turnover of psychiatric nurses
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56294/hl2025889Keywords:
Compassion fatigue, Psychiatric nurses, Job satisfaction, Turnover, Mental health, Saudi ArabiaAbstract
Psychiatric Mental health hospital in Saudi Arabia suffer fundamental problem of increased rates of mental health nurses turnover that seriously affect the quality of psychiatric patients’ care.
Objective: This study aimed to examine the Impact of Compassion Support Program ( CSP) on Compassion Fatigue, Job Satisfaction, and Turnover of Psychiatric Nurses at El Taif Mental Hospital, Makkah city, SAUDI Arabia
Method: A quasi-experimental (pre-post one-group) research design is used to evaluate the impact of Compassion Support Programs on compassion fatigue, job satisfaction, and turnover of psychiatric nurses in Taif Mental hospital, Makkah province of Saudi Arabia.
The sample: consisted of all nurses who accepted to voluntary participate in the study, their number amounted to 40 nurses out of total 80 nurses after following the procedure of sampling size and G. power analysis. They represented different age groups, fluent in Arabic or English languages and represented the different hospital departments.
Tools of data collection were four self-rating questionnaires (Arabic & English). Three of them were administrated pre and post implementation of the CSP program to evaluate its efficacy on the three specified variables.
Results: statistical analysis using paired-samples t-test revealed significant differences at p. <0.05 between pre and post program implementations regarding all three variables. Pearson correlation test also showed significant correlation at (p˂ 0.05) among nationality, education, income, intention to leave, job satisfaction, and compassion fatigue. Multiple Regression analysis confirmed that lack of job satisfaction is the most highly correlated factor to the intention to leave work among Psychiatric nurses in this hospital.
Conclusion: Compassion Support Program proved a significant impact on reducing psychiatric nurses’ compassion fatigue, turn over as well as significantly improved job satisfaction
References
- Al-Ahmadi, H. (2006). Determinants of nurse turnover in psychiatric hospital in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia. Journal of the Social Sciences, 34(4), 73-109.
- Ames, M., Salmond, E., Holly, C., & Kamienski, M. (2017). Strategies that reduce compassion fatigue and increase compassion satisfaction in nurses: A systematic review protocol. JBI Evidence Synthesis, 15(7), 1800-1804. https:// doi.org/ 10.11124/JBISRIR-2016-003142. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11124/JBISRIR-2016-003142
- Alreshidi, S. (2023). Compassion fatigue prevalence and risk factors among Saudi psychiatric nurses: A cross-sectional study. Medicine (Baltimore). Nov 10;102(45): e35975. doi: 10.1097/MD DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000035975
- Abbass, A. (2021). Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Methods, Evidence, Indications and Limitations . Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening, 58(10), 874-879.
- Bao, S. & Taliaferro, D. (2015). Compassion Fatigue and Psychological Capital in Nurses Working in Acute Care Settings. International Journal for Human Caring, 19 (2), pp. 35–40. doi: 10.20467/1091-5710-19.2.35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20467/1091-5710-19.2.35
- Bellolio, M. F., Cabrera, D., Sadosty, A. T., Hess, E. P., Campbell, R. L., Lohse, C. M., & Sunga, K. L. (2014). Compassion fatigue is similar in emergency medicine residents compared to other medical and surgical specialties. Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 15(6), 629. http://doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2014.5.216 24. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2014.5.21624
- Bin Saeed, K.S. (2015). Factors Which Influence Nurses’ Intention to Leave the Hospital, Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia. Journal of King Saud University (Administrative Sciences), 7, 2, 85–105.
- Chen B, Gong W, Lai AYK, Sit SMM, Ho SY, Yu NX, Wang MP, Lam TH. Family context as a double-edged sword for psychological distress amid the COVID-19 pandemic with the mediating effect of individual fear and the moderating effect of household income. Front Public Health. 2023 Mar 23;11:1109446. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1109446. PMID: 37033084; PMCID: PMC10076528. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1109446
- Coetzee, S.K., Laschinger, H.K.S. (2018). Toward a comprehensive, theoretical model of compassion fatigue: An integrative literature review. Nurs Health Sci. Mar; 20(1):4-15. doi: 10.1111/nhs.12387. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.12387
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Mansour Al Manea, Nelly Mahgoub , Mona Talat (Author)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
The article is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Unless otherwise stated, associated published material is distributed under the same licence.
