Table 2 Summary of included literature of compassion fatigue conceptual analyses by year of publication
From: Compassion fatigue in helping professions: a scoping literature review
Author(s) | Year | Tittle | Type of Study | Profession | Aim |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Figley, C | 1995 | Compassion Fatigue as Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder | Literature review | Psychology | To review the scientific and clinical literature and to propose new approaches to conceptualizing, researching, treating traumatic stress |
Figley, C | 2002 | Compassion Fatigue: Psychotherapists’ Chronic Lack of Self Care | Case study | Social work, psychotherapists | To discuss the concept, forms of compassion fatigue, among psychotherapists and compare it with simple burnout and countertransference |
Gentry, JE | 2002 | Compassion Fatigue: A Crucible of Transformation | Empirical literature | Psychology practitioner | To explore the potential causes, prevention, and treatment of compassion fatigue and the damaging effects of helping those who have experienced trauma |
Coetzee, S & Klopper, HC | 2010 | Compassion Fatigue within Nursing Practice: A Concept Analysis | Concept analysis | Clinical psychology | To define compassion fatigue in nursing practice and reveal deeper knowledge about compassion fatigue by identifying categories and characteristics, constructing theoretical and operational definitions, developing a model, and identifying empirical indicators |
Day, JR & Anderson, RA | 2011 | Compassion Fatigue: An Application of the Concept to Informal Caregivers of Family Members with Dementia | Literature review | Clinical, Health care | To identify common themes across the literature as well as existing models of compassion fatigue in informal caregivers for family members with dementia |
Lynch, SH & Lobo, ML | 2012 | Compassion Fatigue in Family Caregivers: A Wilsonian Concept Analysis | Literature review | Humanities, health care, psychology | To analyze the concept of compassion fatigue in family caregivers and their intense experiences, and identify the causes of family caregivers experiencing compassion fatigue |
Fernando, AT & Consedine, NS | 2013 | Beyond Compassion Fatigue: The Transactional Model of Physician Compassion | Literature review on transactional model output | Psychological medicine | To present the Transactional Model of Physician Compassion, critique the utility of the concept of compassion fatigue, identify specific aspects of physicians' intrapersonal, interpersonal, clinical, and professional functioning that may impair or enhance compassion |
Ledoux, K | 2015 | Understanding Compassion Fatigue: Understanding Compassion | Literature review | Clinical (nursing) | To discuss the construct of compassion fatigue in nursing, the nature, prevalence, and contribution of compassion in nursing, and the impact when compassion is absent or thwarted |
Sheppard, K | 2014 | Compassion Fatigue among Registered Nurses: Connecting Theory and Research | Conceptual model and qualitative studies | Clinical (nursing) | To explain the challenges of applying one of the conceptual models widely used in research among nurses at risk of compassion fatigue |
Sinclair, S, Raffin-Bouchal, S, Venturato, L, Mijovic-Kondejewski, J, & Smith-MacDonald, L | 2017 | Compassion Fatigue: A Meta-Narrative Review of The Healthcare Literature | Systematic literature review | Psychology and healthcare | To critically examine the construct of compassion fatigue and determine compassion fatigue as an accurate depiction of work-related stress in healthcare providers |
Nolte, AG, Downing, C, Temane, A, & Hastings‐Tolsma, M | 2017 | Compassion Fatigue in Nurses: A Metasynthesis | Meta-synthesis | Clinical psychology | To interpret the results of qualitative research focusing on compassion fatigue to distill common understandings that can then be applied to caregivers |
Steinheiser, M | 2018 | Compassion Fatigue among Nurses in Skilled Nursing Facilities: Discoveries and Challenges of a Conceptual Model in Research | Theory connection and literature review | Clinical psychology | To provide further insight into the commonly used conceptual model of compassion fatigue based on the results of the researcher's phenomenological study with nurses working in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) |
Cross, LA | 2018 | Compassion Fatigue in Palliative Care Nursing | Concept analysis | Clinical psychology | To define compassion fatigue in the context of palliative nursing, within the discipline of palliative care nursing to make it relevant for care givers who are routinely exposed to patients with compassion fatigue |
Butts, MM, Lunt, DC, Freling, TL, & Gabriel, AS | 2019 | Helping One or Helping Many? A Theoretical Integration and Meta-analytic Review of The Compassion Fade Literature | Literature review and meta-analytic | Psychology | To conduct the meta-analysis on compassion fade, synthesized 41 studies (95 independent samples with a total sample size of 13,259) spanning nearly two decades |
Andrews, H | 2019 | Needing Permission: The Experience of Self-care and Self-compassion in Nursing. A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study | Constructivist grounded theory and semi-structured interviews | National Health Service (NHS) Trusts within the United Kingdom (UK) | To explore nurses' experiences of self-care and self-compassion, and the relationship with providing compassionate care to patients |
Cavanagh, N, Cockett, G, Heinrich, C, Doig, L, Fiest, K, Guichon, J R., … & Doig, C. J | 2019 | Compassion Fatigue in Healthcare Providers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | Systematic review and meta-analysis | Medicine | To review the prevalence of compassion fatigue among healthcare practitioners and its association with demographic variables using narrative synthesis and meta-analysis methods. common in subscales |