REVIEW article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Occupational Health and Safety
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1590995
Prevalence and risk factors of compassion fatigue in gynaecological and obstetric nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Provisionally accepted
- 1Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
- 2The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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Objective: This study systematically evaluated the incidence and influencing factors of compassion fatigue (CF) among obstetric and gynecological nurses.Methods: Retrieve the cross-sectional study on the current occurrence status of CF among obstetric and gynecological nurses in the Web of Science, PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, CBM, CNKI, VIP and WANFANG database.Database were searched from the database establishment to September 8, 2024.Literature screening, data extraction and bias risk assessment were performed independently by two researchers. Stata17.0 software was used for metaanalysis.Results: A total of 15 studies involving 6,799 obstetrics and gynecology nurses were included in the analysis. The meta-analysis results indicated that the incidence of moderate to severe CF among these nurses was 77.6% (ES=0.776, 95%
Keywords: Nurse, Obstetrics and Gynecology, compassion fatigue, Influencing factors, Systematic review
Received: 10 Mar 2025; Accepted: 25 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Lv, Che, Xie, Ren, Guo and Tu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Suhua Tu, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, 646000, Sichuan, China
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