Self-Compassion Interventions to Target Secondary Traumatic Stress in Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review

作者：Annabel Rushforth, Mia Durk, Gabby A. A. Rothwell-Blake, Ann Kirkman, Fiona Ng, Yasuhiro Kotera · 发表于：International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.3390/ijerph20126109 · 被引用次数：51 · 研究领域：Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions、Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout、COVID-19 and Mental Health

Healthcare professionals' wellbeing can be adversely affected by the intense demands of, and the secondary traumatic stress associated with, their job. Self-compassion is associated with positive wellbeing outcomes across a variety of workforce populations and is potentially an important skill for healthcare workers, as it offers a way of meeting one's own distress with kindness and understanding. This systematic review aimed to synthesise and evaluate the utility of self-compassion interventions in reducing secondary traumatic stress in a healthcare worker population. Eligible articles were identified from research databases, including ProQuest, PsycINFO, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar, and EBSCO. The quality of non-randomised and randomised trials was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. The literature search yielded 234 titles, from which 6 studies met the inclusion criteria. Four studies reported promising effects of self-compassion training for secondary traumatic stress in a healthcare population, although these did not use controls. The methodological quality of these studies was medium. This highlights a research gap in this area. Three of these four studies recruited workers from Western countries and one recruited from a non-Western country. The Professional Quality of Life Scale was used to evaluate secondary traumatic stress in all studies. The findings show preliminary evidence that self-compassion training may improve secondary traumatic stress in healthcar...