The Role of Satisfaction With Job and Cognitive Trauma Processing in the Occurrence of Secondary Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Medical Providers Working With Trauma Victims

Introduction: As an occupational group, medical providers working with victims of trauma are prone to negative consequences of their work, particularly secondary traumatic stress (STS) symptoms. Various factors affect susceptibility to STS, including work-related and organizational determinants, as well as individual differences. The aim of the study was to establish the mediating role of cognitive trauma processing in the relationship between job satisfaction and STS symptoms among medical providers.Procedure and Participants: Results were obtained from 419 healthcare providers working with victims of trauma (218 nurses and 201 paramedics). Three questionnaires, namely the Secondary Traumatic Stress Inventory, Work Satisfaction Scale, and Cognitive Trauma Processing Scale, were used in the study, as well as a survey developed for this research. Correlational and mediation analyses were applied to assess relations between variables.Results: The results showed significant links between STS symptoms and both job satisfaction and cognitive processing of trauma. Three cognitive coping strategies play the intermediary role in the relationship between job satisfaction and symptoms of secondary traumatic stress. However, this role varies depending on preferred strategies.Conclusion: Nurses and paramedics are significantly exposed to the occurrence of STS. Thus, it is important to engage health care providers in activities aimed at preventing and reducing symptoms of STS.

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The Mediating Role of Cognitive Trauma Processing in the Relationship Between Empathy and Secondary Traumatic Stress Symptoms Among Female Professionals Working With Victims of Violence

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/0886260520976211 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 088626052097621

Author(s):

Nina Ogińska-Bulik ◽

Zygfryd Juczyński ◽

Paulina Michalska

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Cognitive Processing ◽

Traumatic Stress ◽

Secondary Traumatic Stress ◽

Cognitive Coping ◽

Trauma Processing ◽

Victims Of Violence ◽

Female Professionals ◽

The Relationship

One of the negative consequences of indirect trauma exposure is secondary traumatic stress (STS). Professionals helping victims of violence may be at the risk of STS symptoms development. Both empathy and cognitive processing of trauma seem to be important in this process. The aim of the study was to examine the relationship between empathy, cognitive processing of trauma and symptoms of STS in women working with people who have experienced violence trauma. The mediation role of cognitive coping strategies in the relationship between empathy and STS was also checked. A total of 154 female professionals representing three groups (therapists, social workers, and probation officers) were included in the study. The age of the respondents ranged from 26 to 67 years ( M = 43.98, SD = 10.83). Three standard measurement tools were included in the study: the modified PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5), the Empathic Sensitivity Scale, and the Cognitive Processing of Trauma Scale. Correlational analysis indicated STS to have positive associations (Pearson’s correlation coefficients) with all three aspects of empathy, and three of the five cognitive coping strategies (denial, regret, downward comparison). Mediation analysis performed by the bootstrapping method found strategies of regret and downward comparison to act as mediators in the relationship between STS and empathic concern. The same results were obtained for perspective taking. In addition, the regret and denial strategies mediated the relationship between personal distress and STS. Empathy and cognitive trauma processing may play an important role in STS symptoms development. Preventive programs for professionals helping trauma victims should focus on cognitive processing of trauma and empathy.

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The Evaluation of a Narrative Intervention for Health-Care Professionals in an Urban Oncology Inpatient Unit

Urban Social Work ◽

10.1891/2474-8684.2.2.176 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 176-190

Author(s):

Nicole M. Saint-Louis ◽

Evan Senreich

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Traumatic Stress ◽

Health Care Professionals ◽

Secondary Traumatic Stress ◽

Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽

Care Providers ◽

Urban Hospitals ◽

Narrative Intervention ◽

Quality Of Life Scale

Background:Oncology professionals in fast-paced urban hospitals are at risk for burnout and secondary traumatic stress.Objective:This exploratory study evaluated the effectiveness of a workplace narrative intervention for oncology professionals in regard to reducing burnout and secondary traumatic stress.Methods:Thirty-five oncology health-care providers from three inpatient oncology units within an urban medical center completed the Professional Quality of Life Scale and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey before and after four monthly group narrative oncology interventions during the work day.Findings:Findings lend tentative support to the effectiveness of this intervention in reducing different aspects of burnout and secondary traumatic stress.Conclusions:Oncology social workers are in a prime position to take a leadership role in instituting such interventions in urban hospitals.

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Medicine, Spirituality, Religion, and Psychology

10.1093/med/9780190272432.003.0015 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Kelly M. Trevino ◽

Kenneth I. Pargament

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Clinical Care ◽

Large Body ◽

Spiritual Needs ◽

Care Providers ◽

Religion And Psychology ◽

And Coping ◽

The Relationship

The current chapter examines the relationship between religion/spirituality (R/S) and medicine through the psychological lens of a religious coping framework. This relationship is considered at the theoretical, patient, caregiver, and care team levels. The R/S beliefs, practices, and coping strategies of patients, informal caregivers, and health care providers in the context of illness is then discussed. A large body of research demonstrates the important role of R/S in how patients and caregivers understand and cope with illness. Similarly, many health care providers view illness and their clinical care through a R/S lens and believe that attending to patients’ spiritual needs is part of their professional role. The chapter concludes with a brief review of psycho-spiritual interventions in medical populations.

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Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress and Fueling Knowledge of Child Maltreatment Among Health Care Providers

Journal of Trauma Nursing ◽

10.1097/jtn.0000000000000630 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 41-46

Author(s):

Cary M. Cain ◽

Katherine Gautreaux

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Child Maltreatment ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Traumatic Stress ◽

Secondary Traumatic Stress ◽

Care Providers

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How Cutbacks and Job Satisfaction Are Related: The Role of Top-Level Public Managers’ Autonomy

Review of Public Personnel Administration ◽

10.1177/0734371x15609409 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 5-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Joris van der Voet ◽

Steven Van de Walle

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Explanatory Variable ◽

Well Being ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

The Public ◽

Work Related ◽

Public Managers ◽

Cutback Management ◽

The Relationship

Many studies on cutback management have suggested that cutbacks may have negative consequences for employee well-being in the public sector. However, the relationship between cutbacks and the work-related attitudes of top-level managers has received little attention. In this study, we assess the relationships between five commonly used cutback measures and the job satisfaction of top-level public managers in 12 European countries. We propose and test a model in which autonomy serves as an explanatory variable for the relationship between cutbacks and job satisfaction. The results indicate that cutback measures have little direct effect on the job satisfaction of managers. However, as cutback measures are related negatively to the perceived managerial autonomy of public managers and positively to the degree in which politicians interfere in the affairs of managers, autonomy may function as a mechanism to explain decreased job satisfaction as a result of cutback implementation.

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Prevalence and severity of secondary traumatic stress and optimism in Indian health care professionals during COVID-19 lockdown

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0257429 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (9) ◽

pp. e0257429

Author(s):

Manohar K. N. ◽

Neha Parashar ◽

C. R. Satish Kumar ◽

Vivek Verma ◽

Sanjiv Rao ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Care ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Traumatic Stress ◽

Health Care Professionals ◽

Secondary Traumatic Stress ◽

Mood States ◽

Primary Data ◽

Care Providers ◽

Life Orientation Test

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light the lacunae in the preparedness of healthcare systems across the globe. This preparedness also includes the safety of healthcare providers (HCPs) at various levels. Sudden spread of COVID-19 infection has created threatening and vulnerable conditions for the HCPs. The current pandemic situation has not only affected physical health of HCPs but also their mental health. Objective This study aims to understand the prevalence and severity of secondary traumatic stress, optimism parameters, along with states of mood experienced by the HCPs, viz., doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals (including Physiotherapist, Lab technicians, Phlebotomist, dieticians, administrative staff and clinical pharmacist), during the COVID-19 lockdown in India. Methodology The assessment of level of secondary traumatic stress (STS), optimism/pessimism (via Life Orientation Test-Revised) and current mood states experienced by Indian HCPs in the present COVID-19 pandemic situation was done using a primary data of 2,008 HCPs from India during the first lockdown during April-May 2020. Data was collected through snow-ball sampling technique, reaching out to various medical health care professionals through social media platforms. Result Amongst the study sample 88.2% of doctors, 79.2 of nurses and 58.6% of allied HCPs were found to have STS in varying severity. There was a female preponderance in the category of Severe STS. Higher optimism on the LOTR scale was observed among doctors at 39.3% followed by nurses at 26.7% and allied health care professionals 22.8%. The mood visual analogue scale which measures the “mood” during the survey indicated moderate mood states without any gender bias in the study sample. Conclusion The current investigation sheds light on the magnitude of the STSS experienced by the HCPs in the Indian Subcontinent during the pandemic. This hitherto undiagnosed and unaddressed issue, calls for a dire need of creating better and accessible mental health programmes and facilities for the health care providers in India.

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Secondary Traumatic Stress in Military Primary and Mental Health Care Providers

Military Medicine ◽

10.7205/milmed-d-13-00087 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 178 (12) ◽

pp. 1310-1315 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Sara Kintzle ◽

Jeffrey S. Yarvis ◽

Brian E. Bride

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Care ◽

Mental Health Care ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Traumatic Stress ◽

Secondary Traumatic Stress ◽

Care Providers ◽

Mental Health Care Providers

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Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy in the Context of COVID-19: The Role of Trust and Confidence in a Seventeen-Country Survey

International Journal of Public Health ◽

10.3389/ijph.2021.636255 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 66 ◽

Author(s):

Laura S. Rozek ◽

Pauline Jones ◽

Anil Menon ◽

Allen Hicken ◽

Samantha Apsley ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

World Health ◽

Vaccine Hesitancy ◽

Care Providers ◽

Health Organizations ◽

Vaccine Acceptance ◽

Public Health Organizations ◽

The Relationship

Objectives: An effective vaccine to SARS-CoV-2 cannot be successfully deployed if a significant number of people worldwide are unwilling to accept it. We investigated the relationship between trust in scientists and medical professionals and perceptions of vaccine safety and effectiveness. We also build on past studies by exploring the relationship between confidence in global health organizations and vaccine hesitancy.Methods: We conducted an online survey in seventeen countries/territories across five world regions between May -June 2020. We assessed the relationship between COVID19 vaccine hesitancy, confidence in public health organizations, and trust in key experts and leaders.Results: Our findings strongly suggest that confidence in the World Health Organization combined with trust in domestic scientists and healthcare professionals is a strong driver of vaccine acceptance across multiple countries/territories.Conclusion: We find that hesitancy is widespread, and uptake would be insufficient to achieve herd immunity. There is widespread confidence in how public health organizations have responded to the current pandemic and this is related to vaccine acceptance. Our results also highlight the important role of trust in health care providers and scientists in reducing COVID19 vaccine hesitancy.

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Coping Humor as a Mediator Between Emotional Intelligence and Job Satisfaction

Journal of Personnel Psychology ◽

10.1027/1866-5888/a000185 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 155-159 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Peizhen Sun ◽

Jennifer J. Chen ◽

Hongyan Jiang

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Emotional Intelligence ◽

Future Research ◽

Satisfaction Scale ◽

Primary School Teachers ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Regulation Of Emotion ◽

The Relationship ◽

Overall Job Satisfaction

Abstract. This study investigated the mediating role of coping humor in the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and job satisfaction. Participants were 398 primary school teachers in China, who completed the Wong Law Emotional Intelligence Scale, Coping Humor Scale, and Overall Job Satisfaction Scale. Results showed that coping humor was a significant mediator between EI and job satisfaction. A further examination revealed, however, that coping humor only mediated two sub-dimensions of EI (use of emotion and regulation of emotion) and job satisfaction. Implications for future research and limitations of the study are discussed.

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Mediasi Kepuasan Kerja dan Stres Kerja pada Hubungan antara Program Jamsostek dan Kinerja Karyawan Studi Kasus pada Perusahaan Swasta di DIY dan Solo

Jurnal Maksipreneur Manajemen Koperasi dan Entrepreneurship ◽

10.30588/jmp.v3i1.89 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 75

Author(s):

Eny Sulistyowati ◽

Totok Danangdjojo

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Social Security ◽

Job Stress ◽

Work Stress ◽

Program Performance ◽

Social Security Program ◽

Mediating Role ◽

The Social ◽

The Relationship

This study aims to explain the influence of the Social Security program on performance and job satisfaction and job stress as a mediating variable. In addition, this study also describes the effect of job satisfaction on the performance and the effect of work stress on performance. The relationship of each variable in this research is to be measured by conducting a survey on 145 employees of private companies that included in Social Security program on DIY and Solo. Then the path analisys used to test the effect of social security program performance in mediation by job satisfaction, performance and job stress, job satisfaction, and examines the effect on the performance and the effect of work stress on performance. The results showed that the social security program significant positively affects job satisfaction and performance. Job satisfaction was also positively and significantly affect performance. Even though mediating role of job satisfaction in the relationship between social security program performance partial. Because merely direct relationship between social security program with greater performance than the mediating role of job satisfaction. Social Security program did not significantly affect the stress of work, as well as job stress did not significantly affect performance. Therefore, the mediating role of work stress on the relationship between social security program with the performance did not occur. Individual differences and work experience may be a factor that causes no significant relationship between the two variables.

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