NDLI: The Pain of Who Cares for Health: What Is the Compassion Fatigue?

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The Pain of Who Cares for Health: What Is the Compassion Fatigue?

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Accioly, C. C. Osório, M. O. Behar, Eliane Nóbrega Albuquerque E Juliana Do Nascimento Porto
Copyright Year	2019
Abstract	Background: Health workers get sick annually because of the characteristics and routine of their work and the peculiarity of dealing with the pain of others. Being sensitive and predisposed to care for the other suffering, involves empathy and compassion. Continuous and prolonged exposure to this labor context can generate stress and exhaustion of the professional, due to prolonged affectation with the pain and suffering of others, which can cause fatigue through compassion. Objective: to reflect about compassion fatigue in the context of health. Methodology: bibliographic review. Results and discussion: Health professionals present a commitment that moves them to relieve and intervene in the pain of the other. When the care is lived exhaustively and chronically, with the excessive use of compassion, it can directly affect the health of the worker, interfering in their quality of life and in the execution of their work, leading to fatigue by compassion. Final considerations: Fatigue of compassion can impact psychologically on health professionals and the ability to tolerate pain and suffering of the patient, interfering negatively in their work. Therefore, it is necessary that more research be developed in the different fields of professional work in health, aiming to stimulate reflections and actions focused on the quality of life of these professionals
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.28933/ijprt-2019-12-0105
Volume Number	2
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://escipub.com/Articles/IJPRT/IJPRT-2019-12-0105.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.28933/ijprt-2019-12-0105
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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