Effects of COVID on Mandated Child Abuse Reporting Among Nurses: The Mediating Role of Compassion Fatigue.

IF 4.5 2区社会学 Q1 FAMILY STUDIES

Child Maltreatment Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-28 DOI:10.1177/10775595241240755

Margaret C Stevenson, Vaishnavi M Ravipati, Cynthia T Schaefer

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Abstract

Because COVID triggered elevated rates of child abuse, but diminished rates of child abuse reporting, we explored predictors of nurses' attitudes toward reporting suspected child abuse during the COVID pandemic. In particular, we expected that compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction would mediate the effects of COVID-related stressors (i.e., exposure to COVID patient death and suffering; COVID-related family income loss; frequent direct care of COVID patients; and parental burnout) on nurses' negative attitudes toward reporting suspected child abuse. Employing chain-referral sampling, we recruited a sample of 244 registered nurses (83% White; 87% women). Supporting hypotheses, compassion fatigue mediated the effects of job-related COVID stressors (exposure to COVID patient death and suffering; COVID-related family income loss; and frequent direct care of COVID patients) on nurses' negative attitudes toward reporting suspected child abuse. In addition, among nurses who were also parents, nurses' self-reported parental burnout mediated the relation between compassion fatigue and negative attitudes toward reporting suspected child abuse. In addition, compassion satisfaction mediated the effect of nurses' parental burnout on nurses' negative attitudes toward reporting suspected child abuse.

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COVID 对护士强制报告虐待儿童事件的影响：同情疲劳的中介作用。

由于 COVID 引发了虐童事件的高发，但虐童事件的报告率却有所下降，因此我们探讨了在 COVID 大流行期间护士对报告疑似虐童事件的态度的预测因素。特别是，我们预计同情心疲劳和同情心满意度将介导 COVID 相关压力因素（即接触 COVID 患者的死亡和痛苦；COVID 相关家庭收入损失；频繁直接护理 COVID 患者；父母职业倦怠）对护士报告疑似虐童行为的消极态度的影响。通过链式转介抽样，我们招募了 244 名注册护士（83% 为白人；87% 为女性）。与假设相符的是，同情疲劳介导了与工作相关的 COVID 压力源（接触 COVID 患者的死亡和痛苦；与 COVID 相关的家庭收入损失；经常直接护理 COVID 患者）对护士报告疑似虐童行为的消极态度的影响。此外，在身为父母的护士中，护士自我报告的父母职业倦怠对同情疲劳与报告疑似虐童行为的消极态度之间的关系起到了中介作用。此外，同情心满意度也能调节护士的父母职业倦怠对护士报告疑似虐童事件的消极态度的影响。

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Child Maltreatment Multiple-

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6.80

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7.80%

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期刊介绍： Child Maltreatment is the official journal of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the nation"s largest interdisciplinary child maltreatment professional organization. Child Maltreatment"s object is to foster professional excellence in the field of child abuse and neglect by reporting current and at-issue scientific information and technical innovations in a form immediately useful to practitioners and researchers from mental health, child protection, law, law enforcement, medicine, nursing, and allied disciplines. Child Maltreatment emphasizes perspectives with a rigorous scientific base that are relevant to policy, practice, and research.