title: Compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, anxiety, depression and stress in registered nurses in Australia: study 1 results.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction with the potential contributing factors of anxiety, depression and stress.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  To date, no studies have connected the quality of work-life with other contributing and co-existing factors such as depression, anxiety and stress.
  
  
  METHODS
  A self-report exploratory cross sectional survey of 132 nurses working in a tertiary hospital.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The reflective assessment risk profile model provides an excellent framework for examining the relationships between the professional quality of work factors and contributing factors within the established risk profiles. The results show a definite pattern of risk progression for the six factors examined for each risk profile. Additionally, burnout and secondary traumatic stress were significantly related to higher anxiety and depression levels. Higher anxiety levels were correlated with nurses who were younger, worked full-time and without a postgraduate qualification. Twenty percent had elevated levels of compassion fatigue: 7.6% having a very distressed profile. At-risk nurses' stress and depression scores were significantly higher than nurses with higher compassion satisfaction scores.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The employed nurse workforce would benefit from a psychosocial capacity building intervention that reduces a nurse's risk profile, thus enhancing retention.
authors.affiliation: Curtin University, School of Nursing and Midwifery and Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: Desley G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Hegney
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Craigie
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hemsworth
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Osseiran-Moisson
authors.forename: Samar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aoun
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Francis
authors.forename: Vicki
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Drury
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D000068376:Compassion Fatigue / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: anxiety; compassion fatigue; depression; model; nurse; resilience; stress