Compassion satisfaction as a mediating factor between decentering and secondary traumatic stress among house surgeons

Pages:414-416
V. Premanand, Edavana Santhosh Sreelakshmi and Prachi Bhavesh Sanghvi (St. Agnes Centre for Post-Graduate Studies and Research, Mangalore, Karnataka)

Professionals in the medical and related fields, like House Surgeons, experience high levels of Secondary Traumatic Stress. This hinders their productive work and can even result in quitting their jobs. But this is not the case with everyone. There are many who cope with this situation successfully. Compassion Satisfaction and Decentering could be two of the factors that help them to do so. The current research aims to study the role of Compassion Satisfaction as a mediating factor between Decentering and Secondary Traumatic Stress among House Surgeons. One hundred and twenty six House Surgeons participated in this study. The Experiences Questionnaire and Professional Quality of Life questionnaire were used to measure the study variables. Mediation analysis was done. The results revealed that Compassion Satisfaction fully mediates the relationship between Decentering and Secondary Traumatic Stress with statistical significance level χ2 (0) =.000, p > .000. Implications of the study can be understood in training Decentering through mindfulness based programmes to the House Surgeons and others in related fields for the development of Compassion Satisfaction to reduce Secondary Traumatic Stress thereby alleviating the negative consequences caused by it.