Enhancing Nurses' Professional Quality of Life: A Psycho-Educational Intervention Study

Abstract

The nursing staff's professional quality of life is significantly impacted by their exposure to other people's trauma and anguish on the job. By reducing secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout, the project intends to develop a psycho-education-based solution that will enhance nurses' professional quality of life. Objective: To assess the impact of a psycho-education-based intervention on nurses' professional quality of life, stress, anxiety, depression, and resilience. Methods: This quasi-experimental study assessed stress, anxiety, depression, and resilience through pre- and post-testing. Purposive sampling was used, and participants were assigned to intervention or control groups without randomization. The ProQOL, BRS, and DASS scales measured outcomes. Data analysis included repeated measures ANOVA for group differences and bivariate correlation analysis. Results: The results showed that the intervention doesn’t have an effect on compassion satisfaction and stress while it significantly decreases burnout, secondary trauma stress, and depression. The current study also found out an increase in the levels of anxiety for the participants at the assessment after intervention. The compassion satisfaction significantly increased, while burnout, secondary trauma, anxiety, stress, and depression decreased significantly. Furthermore, burnout showed to be negatively correlated with resilience, while secondary trauma stress was not correlated with resilience. Compassion fatigue was also positively correlated with resilience. Conclusion: The research concludes that the interventions based on psycho-education are significant to be utilized in the healthcare sector.