• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.336-340
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• 2019

Background/Aims: Victim advocates are at risk of developing secondary traumatic stress (STS), which can result from witnessing or listening to accounts of traumatic events. This study investigated the relationship between victim status, years of experience, hours of direct contact with victims, and availability of workplace supports in the development of STS. Results: Of the 142 victim advocates, 134 were women. Regression analyses revealed that the only significant predictor of STS was the number of direct hours of victim services provided. Conclusion: The findings from this study found that women have high rates of STS and that more workplace support needs to be implemented.

• 성인간호학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.64-73
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• 2012

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate emergency nurses' reported traumatic events, professional quality of life and physical symptoms. Methods: The design of the study was descriptive. The respondents were 157 Emergency nurses with the majority were women (94.3% female and 5.7% were men). Data were collected from September 28 to December 1, 2011. The professional quality of life (ProQOL) instrument is conceptualized with three sub-dimensions (compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress), in addition information about traumatic events, physical symptoms and demographic variables were collected. Burnout and secondary traumatic stress (STS) are two parts of compassion fatigue. Data were analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 18.0 program and included descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlations. Results: Thirteen percent of the participants reported a high ProQOL. Compassion satisfaction was negatively correlated with burnout and physical symptoms, whereas, traumatic events had positive correlations with STS. Also, burnout and STS were positively correlated with physical symptoms respectively. Conclusion: Since the level of professional quality of life among emergency nurses was relatively low it is recommended that an intervention program for emergency nurses be instituted to improve compassion satisfaction and to decrease compassion fatigue and physical symptoms.

• 한국응급구조학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.5-15
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• 2009

Purpose : This study was to examine the secondary traumatic stress(STS) and related factors of emergency medical technicians. Methods : This study was conducted among 190 emergency medical technicians, over the age of 25, with the 1st or 2nd grade qualification, who serve at fire stations in U and P city of Korea. The collected data for this study was analyzed using SPSS 12.0. Result : The average character type of A-type personality technicians was 43.25 points and the average of B-type personality technicians was 37.82 points. It suggested that the former was higher than the latter. State anxiety did not show statistically significant difference between A-Type group and B-Type group with the score of 48.51 for A-Type and 47.91 for B-Type. Physical symptoms showed statistically significant difference between the two groups with the higher score of 28.45 for A-type group than that of 28.13 for B-Type group. The level of STS related to the volunteers' job characteristics was found to be low when the volunteers were satisfied with their job and didn't want to transfer to another division. Those on duty who had slept more than seven hours that day had the highest points. The number of points was highest when the frequency for the onset of trauma was between 20~30 times. Furthermore it was found that for most technicians, 71.05%, the period of symptoms lasted for a few weeks at most, and this was where the STS was the lowest, whereas on the other hand the highest STS occurred when the symptoms lasted for a period of up to six months. The findings showed significant correlations with a relation of r=.24 between STS and level of anxiety and r=.45 between STS and physical symptoms. However, no significant correlation was found between the level of anxiety and physical symptoms. Conclusion : The more emergency medical technicians are exposed to accidents, the more serious the STS are. Those with an A-type personality are especially prone to have higher STS. The higher the STS level is, the higher the level of physical states and anxiety is.

• 한국아동복지학
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• 제36호
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• pp.289-322
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• 2011

본 연구는 다양한 종류의 폭력으로 인한 외상생존자들과 일하는 사회복지사의 소진과 이차적 외상 스트레스에 관심을 두고 전국의 아동보호전문기관과 가정폭력피해자 지원기관 및 성폭력 피해자 지원기관에 근무하는 사회복지사 233명을 대상으로 설문조사 분석한 결과이다. 이차적 외상 스트레스와 소진의 수준과 사회인구학적 배경에 따른 차이를 분석한 다음, 역할갈등과 업무부담, 자기효능감, 이차적 외상 스트레스와 소진의 관련성을 경로모형을 통해 분석하였다. 이 과정에서 이차적 외상 스트레스와 자기효능감이 소진에 대한 역할갈등과 업무부담의 영향을 매개하는지를 점검하고 특히 변수 간의 관련성이 외상생존자의 유형(아동/성인), 즉 기관(아동보호 전문기관과 가정폭력 성폭력피해자 지원기관)에 따라 차이가 있는지를 살펴보았다. 연구결과 조사대상자의 이차적 외상 스트레스는 PTSD 증후군의 절단점 이상이 64.7%나 되었고 연령과 학력이 낮을수록, 미혼일 때, 아동외상생존자와 일하는 경우에서 일관되게 높게 나타났고 직급에 따라 차이를 보였는데 이는 소진도 동일한 경향성을 보였다. 직무특성인 역할갈등과 업무부담이 높을수록 종사자의 소진이 높았고 업무부담은 이차적 외상 스트레스에 영향을 주었으며 이차적 외상 스트레스가 높으면 소진이 높아 이차적 외상 스트레스는 매개역할을 하는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 아동 외상생존자와 일하는 종사자의 소진은 업무부담의 직접 영향을 받았는데 업무부담과 역할갈등이 높을수록 이차적 외상 스트레스가 높았으며 이차적 외상 스트레스는 역할갈등의 소진에 대한 영향을 완전매개하고 업무부담의 소진 영향은 부분매개하는 것으로 나타났다. 한편 성인 외상생존자와 일하는 종사자의 소진은 역할갈등과 업무부담의 직접 영향을 받았으며 업무부담${\rightarrow}$이차적 외상 스트레스${\rightarrow}$소진, 그리고 업무부담${\rightarrow}$이차적 외상 스트레스${\rightarrow}$자기효능감${\rightarrow}$소진의 경로를 통해 간접 영향을 받았다. 자기효능감은 성인 외상생존자와 일하는 종사자의 경우에만 소진에 직접적인 부정적 효과를 주었다. 결론적으로 외상생존자와 일하는 사회복지사의 소진 감소전략은 이차적 외상 스트레스의 감소가 선행되어야 함을 보여주었고 외상생존자의 유형(아동/성인)에 따른 개입 전략의 차별화가 필요함을 알 수 있다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.45-50
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• 2020

Occupational therapists (OTs) interface patients much longer than other healthcare workers and, thus, are likely to experience a high level of stress because of work, physical fatigue, lack of professional knowledge and skills, and problematic relationships with patients, etc. This study examined the quality of the lives of OTs and the workplace which is an influential factor. This study recruited 200 OTs and used a professional quality of life scale. We found that, only 27.0% experience high levels of compassion satisfaction (CS) and 80.5% and 74.5% experience high or average levels of burnout (BO) and secondary traumatic stress (STS) of compassion fatigue (CF), respectively. We discovered that CS was higher in temporary employees; and CF was higher in females, subjects in their 30s; and those working at general hospitals. Also, BO was higher in those with one to five years of clinical experience and regular employees. Last, STS was higher in the group without stable income. This study verified that clinical experience is a critical factor that reduces BO, and excessive workload outside of treatment lowers the professional quality of life. This suggests that work environment and regulations related to OTs must be improved to increase CS and reduce CF.