Stress and Coping, Resilience, and Compassion Fatigue of Front-line Nurses During COVID-19 Pandemic

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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This is a cross-sectional research. The investigators plan to recruit about 250 front-line nurses who provided direct care to COVID-19 confirmed cases in a medical center in Taiwan. Online querstionnaires are used to collect the data. The relationship between variables such as stressors related to COVID-19, coping status, resilience, and compassion fatigue of participants will be analysis to provide the direction of nurses' mental health-related interventions.

Detailed Description
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This project aims to identify the prevalence of compassion fatigue and the coping strategies for the nurses who work on the frontline of healthcare and are responsible for caring for patients with COVID-19 in Taiwan. The investigators planed to carry a cross-sectional study by a reliable and valid online questionnaire to explore the stressors related to COVID-19, coping status, resilience, and compassion fatigue of nurses who had the experience of caring for the COVID-19 confirmed cases in a medical center during the community outbreak in Taiwan from May 2021. Online questionnaires are used to collect the data. About two hundred and fifty nurses will be recruited, and the data will be analyzed by descriptive statistics, correlation statistics and Hayes's PROCESS model 6. It is expected that the research results can understand the current status and relationship of compassion fatigue, resilience and the adaptability of clinical nurses who are caring for the COVID-19 confirmed cases. The results can be contributed to develop the direction of nurses' mental health-related interventions during pandemic of emerging contagious disease.

Official Title
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The Correlation of Stress and Coping, Resilience, and Compassion Fatigue of Nurses Staying on Front-line During COVID-19 Outbreak in Taiwan

Conditions
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COVID-19 Pandemic, Stressor, Psychological, Mental Health Issue

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: This is a cross-sectional research design.


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Above/include 20-year-old. Those who can operate mobile communication software or computers and can fill in online questionnaires. Clinical nurses who had provided nursing care for COVID-19 confirmed cases from May 2021. Exclusion Criteria: Those who did not provide nursing care for COVID-19 confirmed cases.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 20 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Intervention/Treatment |
| --- |
|Other: This is a cross-sectional research design.|No intervention will be involved in the study.|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
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| Interaction effect between research variables | Factors including stressors related to COVID-19, stress coping, resilience, and compassion fatigue have interaction effect. | six months to collect and analysis data. | 
| Moderation effect between research variables | Both stress coping and resilience moderate the strength relationship between stressors and compassion fatigue. | six months to collect and analysis data. | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Burnout, COVID-19, Front-line Nurses, Compassion Fatigue, Stress Coping, Resilience