Secondary trauma is defined as indirect exposure to trauma through a firsthand account or narrative of a traumatic event. The vivid recounting of trauma by the survivor and the clinician's subsequent cognitive or emotional representation of that event may result in a set of symptoms and reactions that parallel PTSD (e.g., re-experiencing, avoidance and hyperarousal). Secondary traumatization is...

The impact of COVID-19 on mental health across the globe has been colossal. Student and well- being during pandemic caused increasing concern due to drastic transition online classes, lowered opportunities for socialization stress related COVID-19. aim present study was explore prevalence fatigue among undergraduate medical students at College Medicine Health Sciences (COMHS), National Universi...

BACKGROUND Psoriatic arthritis is associated with psychosocial morbidity and decrease in quality of life. Psychiatric comorbidity also plays an important role in the impairment of quality of life and onset of fatigue. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to assess the prevalence of fatigue in psoriatic arthritis patients and to correlate it to quality of life indexes, functional capacity, anxiety, dep...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to understand better the risk of compassion fatigue (the trauma suffered by the helping professional) and burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced sense of personal accomplishment), and the potential for compassion satisfaction (the fulfillment from helping others and positive collegial relationships) among Colorado county child protecti...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the effect of massage therapy and Healing Touch on anxiety, depression, subjective caregiver burden, and fatigue experienced by caregivers of patients undergoing autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant. DESIGN Quasi-experimental repeated measures. SETTING Oncology/hematology outpatient clinic in a large midwestern city. SAMPLE 36 caregivers: 13 in the c...