Burnout and Mindfulness Self-Compassion in Nurses of Intensive Care Units: Cross-Sectional Study.
Pilar Gracia-Gracia, Bárbara Oliván-Blázquez
Holistic Nursing Practice July 1, 2017 DOI: 10.1097/hnp.0000000000000215 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Cross-sectional study Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | Nurses working in intensive care units |
| Topics | Anxiety Depression Meditation |
| Keywords | Humans Cross-sectional studies Empathy Self efficacy Burnout, professional Adult Middle aged Nurses Intensive care units Spain Female Surveys and questionnaires |
| Key findings | Burnout among intensive care unit nurses was inversely related to their level of self-compassion, indicating that nurses with greater self-compassion tended to report less burnout. The authors identify nursing staff as a main risk group for burnout and propose self-compassion as a relevant factor. |
Abstract
Nursing staff has been identified as one of the main risk groups for the development of burnout. The objective of this study is to analyze the ability of self-compassion mindfulness related to burnout in nurses of intensive care units. The results show that the level of burnout of nursing staff is inversely related to their level of self-compassion.
Comparable studies
Other cross-sectional and survey studies on meditation, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construct Validity of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire in Meditating and Nonmeditating Samples Experienced meditators and nonmeditating comparison groups | 2008 | Cross-sectional study | |
| Neural Correlates of Dispositional Mindfulness During Affect Labeling Adult participants | 2007 | Observational cross-sectional | n = 27 |
| Assessing mindfulness in children and adolescents: Development and validation of the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM). School-aged children and adolescents | 2011 | Cross-sectional validation study | n = 1,413 |
| Mindfulness and self-compassion as predictors of psychological wellbeing in long-term meditators and matched nonmeditators Experienced meditators and demographically matched nonmeditators | 2012 | Cross-sectional study | n = 152 |
| Mechanisms of Action in the Inverse Relationship Between Mindfulness and Psychological Distress Undergraduates | 2008 | Cross-sectional, correlational |
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