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| Journal Article | DKFZ-2025-01113 |
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2025
Springer Nature
[London]
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1038/s41598-025-01111-1
Abstract: Healthcare professionals (HCPs) are essential for maintaining our healthcare system but are at risk for developing mental health issues due to chronic occupational stress. This can lead to a vicious cycle with extended sick leave, increased workloads for colleagues, and strain on the healthcare system. Therefore, preventive interventions aiming at enhancing resilience - the maintenance of mental health despite stress - are essential. Yet, identifying the most impactful resilience factors has been challenging. To explore the relationships between resilience factors, stress, mental health, and work-related outcomes, we conducted regularized partial correlation network analyses focusing on self-care and self-compassion. Cross-sectional data from HCPs in Germany were collected from June-July 2023. Analyses of 212 HCPs (age 41.63 [21-68] years; 81.60% women) revealed self-compassion as the most important factor across all networks, while the importance of self-care showed through individual connections to crucial factors like mental health problems and work-life balance. Work engagement, contrary to burnout, was closely interrelated with resilience factors. In conclusion, despite accounting for established evidence-based resilience factors, self-compassion and self-care seem crucial in the context of stress and mental health in HCPs. More research is needed to validate the causal importance of self-care and self-compassion.
Keyword(s): Humans (MeSH) ; Female (MeSH) ; Adult (MeSH) ; Self Care: psychology (MeSH) ; Resilience, Psychological (MeSH) ; Middle Aged (MeSH) ; Male (MeSH) ; Health Personnel: psychology (MeSH) ; Empathy (MeSH) ; Cross-Sectional Studies (MeSH) ; Occupational Stress: psychology (MeSH) ; Burnout, Professional: psychology (MeSH) ; Aged (MeSH) ; Germany (MeSH) ; Young Adult (MeSH) ; Mental Health (MeSH) ; Stress, Psychological: psychology (MeSH) ; Burnout ; Healthcare professionals ; Network models ; Resilience ; Self-Care ; Self-Compassion
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