Compassion fatigue among service providers in a community health agency

Project (M.S.W., Social Work) -- California State University, Sacramento, 2011.This study set forth to examine the rates of compassion fatigue among community health\ud providers. The study included 30 providers from one agency in Alameda County. Data for this project was collected utilizing one scale, The Professional Quality of Life Scale\ud (PRoQOL) Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue Version 5. An additional 12 questions\ud were also asked to gather sociodemographic information from the participants. The\ud findings from this study indicated that participants possess a low level of compassion\ud fatigue, low to average burnout, low secondary traumatic stress, and high compassion\ud satisfaction. Recommendations for this project include agency promotion of self-care,\ud consistent supportive supervision, and the creation of supportive groups within the\ud provider???s environment.Social Wor