A pilot study to test psychophonetics methodology for self-care and empathy in compassion fatique, burnout and secondary traumatic stress
dc.contributor.author | Train, Katherine J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Butler, Nadine | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-03-17T14:43:13Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-03-17T14:43:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: Home-based care is recognised as being a stressful occupation. Practitioners working with patients experiencing high levels of trauma may be susceptible to compassion fatigue, with the sustained need to remain empathic being a contributing factor. Objectives: The aim of this research was to evaluate psychophonetics methodology for selfcare and empathy skills as an intervention for compassion fatigue. Objectives were to measure levels of compassion fatigue pre-intervention, then to apply the intervention and retest levels one month and six months post-intervention. Method: The research applied a pilot test of a developed intervention as a quasi-experiment. The study sample comprised home-based carers working with HIV-positive patients at a hospice in Grabouw, a settlement in the Western Cape facing socioeconomic challenge. Results: The result of the pilot study showed a statistically-significant improvement in secondary traumatic stress, a component of compassion fatigue, measured with the ProQOL v5 instrument post-intervention. Conclusion: The results gave adequate indication for the implementation of a larger study in order to apply and test the intervention. The study highlights a dire need for further research in this field. | en_US |
dc.description.accreditation | Department of HE and Training approved list | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Train, K. and Butler, N. (2013). A pilot study to test psychophonetics methodology for self-care and empathy in compassion fatique, burnout and secondary traumatic stress. African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine, 5(1): 1-6 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2071-2928 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/1383 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.privacy.showsubmitter | false | |
dc.publisher | AOSIS OpenJournals | en_US |
dc.rights | This article is published in an open access journal and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. | |
dc.source.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v5i1.497 | |
dc.status.ispeerreviewed | true | |
dc.subject | Family medicine | en_US |
dc.subject | Primary health care | en_US |
dc.subject | Health workers | en_US |
dc.subject | Compassion fatigue | en_US |
dc.subject | Grabouw | en_US |
dc.subject | South Africa | en_US |
dc.title | A pilot study to test psychophonetics methodology for self-care and empathy in compassion fatique, burnout and secondary traumatic stress | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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