Palliative Care Professionals' Inner Life: Exploring the Relationships Among Awareness, Self-Care, and Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue, Burnout, and Coping With Death
Journal of Pain and Symptom ManagementPublished 18 February 2015Open access
Noemí Sansó, Laura Galiana, Amparo Oliver, Antonio Pascual, Shane Sinclair, Enric Benito
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A quantitative evaluation of the model is applied, providing evidence of a constellation of key variables for health professionals' quality of life, such as specific training, self-care, awareness and coping with death competency.
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The awareness-based model of self-care was successfully tested in a multidisciplinary sample of Spanish palliative care professionals. This research applies a quantitative evaluation of the model, providing evidence of a constellation of key variables for health professionals' quality of life, such as specific training, self-care, awareness and coping with death competency.
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