PREVALENCE OF COMPASSION FATIGUE IN EMERGENCY AND INTENSIVE CARE NURSES IN TURKEY

The aim of this study is to research the prevalence of compassion fatigue among intensive care nurses in a public hospital located in northwestern Turkey. The sample of the study consisted of 111 nurses who worked at adult intensive care units and volunteered for the study. In the collection of research data, demographic questionnaire which includes socio-demographic features and compassion fatigue (CF) sub-scale of Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOLR-IV) were used. In the examination, numbers, percentages, mean values, and standard deviations from among descriptive statistics, the Mann Whitney U test, the Kruskal Wallis test, and the Binary logistic regression model were used. In this study, 60.1% of the nurses were found to be in the high risk category with regard to compassion fatigue. Additionally, nurses with high education levels, less occupational experience, and excessive weekly working hours who were single were found to experience higher compassion fatigue risk (p < 0.05). Nurses being supported against the risk of compassion fatigue and coping strategies for this situation being taught to nurses will reflect in their life and work quality positively. Further studies in different specialist fields and areas should be performed in order to incentivize the generalisation of our results and discover other potential predictors