Effect of emotional resilience training on compassion fatigue and psychological resilience of intensive care unit nurses / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To observe the effect of emotional resilience training on compassion fatigue and psychological resilience of intensive care unit nurses.Methods:A total of 70 intensive care unit nurses were randomly divided into experiment group and control group, each of 35 cases. Control group nurses were given routine psychological guidance intervention, in addition, the experiment group was carried out 8 weeks of emotional resilience training. The effect of intervention was assessed by Chinese version of the compassion fatigue scale and Connor-Davidson resilience scale before and after intervention.Results:After intervention, the average scores of compassion satisfaction, secondary traumatic stress and total compassion fatigue scores were (26.46±4.99)pionts, (17.80±4.05)pionts and (69.14±5.70)pionts, significantly lower than in the control group (28.86±4.14)pionts, (20.11±4.38)pionts and (75.51±10.32)pionts, the difference was statistically significant ( t value was 2.190, 2.296, 3.197, P<0.05). After intervention, the average scores of tenacity, power, optimism and total resilience scores were (34.23±6.06)pionts, (25.77±5.01)pionts, (14.31±3.22)pionts and (74.31±9.55)pionts, significantly higher than in the control group (30.86±6.23)pionts, (23.31±3.29)pionts, (12.11±2.04)pionts and (66.29±7.28)pionts, the difference was statistically significant ( t value was 2.295-3.956, P<0.05). Conclusion:Emotional resilience training can effectively reduce the compassion fatigue and improve psychological resilience of intensive care unit nurses.