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A qualitative study on compassion fatigue experience and influencing factors of geriatric nurses

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Objective: With the rapid development of an aging society, the workload of geriatric nurses is increasing, but their psychological health issues are not receiving enough attention. This study explores the experience of compassion fatigue and its influencing factors among geriatric nurses, and provides targeted recommendations. Methods: This qualitative study, conducted at the Guangzhou First People’s Hospital. Sixteen nurses of a geriatric department were selected using purposive sampling and subjected to semi-structured in-depth interviews. The study was carried out from September 2022 to February 2023, Colaizzi’s method was used to analyze the qualitative data obtained from the interviews. Results: Three main themes were extracted from the analysis: compassion fatigue greatly affects my personal mentality, various things can cause nurses to experience compassion fatigue, and compassion fatigue causes many problems in the lives and work of nurses, including ten sub-themes. Conclusion: This qualitative study reports nurses in geriatric department are prone to compassion fatigue. The factors influencing nurses’ compassion fatigue need to be correctly identified so that targeted pre-control strategies can be adopted to promote nurses’ physical and mental health, increase compassion satisfaction and reduce burnout. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.41.4.9051 How to cite this: Dong Y, Huang Y, Li D, Li X, Rao H. A qualitative study on compassion fatigue experience and influencing factors of geriatric nurses. Pak J Med Sci. 2025;41(4):1008-1012. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.41.4.9051 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Source: Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences

DOI: 10.12669/pjms.41.4.9051

Authors: Yang Dong, Yuee Huang, Danli Li, Xiaoling Li, Hongying Rao

Institutions: Guangzhou First People's Hospital, Sichuan University

Language: English

Topic: Occupational Health and Burnout

Subfield: Occupational Therapy

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $400