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dc.contributor.authorTrain, Katherine J.
dc.contributor.authorButler, Nadine
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-17T14:43:13Z
dc.date.available2015-03-17T14:43:13Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationTrain, K. and Butler, N. (2013). A pilot study to test psychophonetics methodology for self-care and empathy in compassion fatique, burnout and secondary traumatic stress. African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine, 5(1): 1-6en_US
dc.identifier.issn2071-2928
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1383
dc.description.abstractBackground: Home-based care is recognised as being a stressful occupation. Practitioners working with patients experiencing high levels of trauma may be susceptible to compassion fatigue, with the sustained need to remain empathic being a contributing factor. Objectives: The aim of this research was to evaluate psychophonetics methodology for selfcare and empathy skills as an intervention for compassion fatigue. Objectives were to measure levels of compassion fatigue pre-intervention, then to apply the intervention and retest levels one month and six months post-intervention. Method: The research applied a pilot test of a developed intervention as a quasi-experiment. The study sample comprised home-based carers working with HIV-positive patients at a hospice in Grabouw, a settlement in the Western Cape facing socioeconomic challenge. Results: The result of the pilot study showed a statistically-significant improvement in secondary traumatic stress, a component of compassion fatigue, measured with the ProQOL v5 instrument post-intervention. Conclusion: The results gave adequate indication for the implementation of a larger study in order to apply and test the intervention. The study highlights a dire need for further research in this field.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAOSIS OpenJournalsen_US
dc.rightsThis article is published in an open access journal and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v5i1.497
dc.subjectFamily medicineen_US
dc.subjectPrimary health careen_US
dc.subjectHealth workersen_US
dc.subjectCompassion fatigueen_US
dc.subjectGrabouwen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleA pilot study to test psychophonetics methodology for self-care and empathy in compassion fatique, burnout and secondary traumatic stressen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.description.accreditationDepartment of HE and Training approved listen_US


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