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Investigación y Educación en Enfermería
Print version ISSN 0120-5307On-line version ISSN 2216-0280
Abstract
MEDINA-FERNANDEZ, Josué et al. Fear and Coping with Death in Intensive Care Nurses: a Structural Model Predictor of Compassion Fatigue. Invest. educ. enferm [online]. 2023, vol.41, n.1, e12. Epub Mar 21, 2023. ISSN 0120-5307. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.iee.v41n1e12.
Objective.
To determine the effect of fear and coping with death on compassion fatigue in nurses working in the intensive care unit.
Methods.
Correlational-predictive design, applied in 245 nurses working in the intensive care unit through intentional sampling. The study applied a personal data card, the Collet-Lester Fear of Death Scale (α=0.72), the Bugen Fell of Death Scale (α=0.82), and the Empathy Exhaustion Scale (α=0.80). Descriptive and inferential statistics were performed, such as Spearman's test and a structural equation model.
Results.
The work had 255 nurses who participated, finding a relationship among fear and coping toward death and compassion fatigue (p<0.01), together with the equation model showing that fear and coping toward death have a positive effect in 43.6% on compassion fatigue.
Conclusion.
Fear and coping with death have an effect on compassion fatigue in nurses working in the intensive care unit, so that when working in a critical area it can cause health effects.
Keywords : fear; death; compassion fatigue; empathy; mental fatigue; critical care; nursing staff.