Open AccessSelf-Care, burnout, and compassion fatigue in oncology professionals
Author(s) -
Diti Kohli,
P Padmakumari
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine/the indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3670
pISSN - 0973-2284
DOI - 10.4103/ijoem.ijoem_201_19
Subject(s) - compassion fatigue , burnout , medicine , psychological intervention , emotional exhaustion , affect (linguistics) , clinical psychology , psychology , family medicine , nursing , communication
With the rising number of cancer cases in India, the stress levels of the treating team have increased. It has affected their self-care and made them susceptible to problems like burnout and compassion fatigue that adversely affect the quality of patient care.