RT journal article
T1 Empathy, Burnout, and Attitudes towards Mental Illness among Spanish Mental Health Nurses
A1 Román-Sánchez, Daniel
A1 Paramio-Cuevas, Juan Carlos
A1 Paloma Castro, Olga
A1 Palazón-Fernández, José Luis
A1 Lepiani, Isabel
A1 de la Fuente Rodríguez, José Manuel
A1 López Millán, María de Los Reyes
A2 Enfermería y Fisioterapia
K1 acute mental health
K1 empathy
K1 nursing role
K1 stigma
AB Mental health nurses, together with psychiatrists, are the healthcare professionals whodisplay the highest levels of empathy and the best attitudes towards patients with mental disorders.However, burnout is a common problem among these professionals. The aim of our study is todescribe the association between empathy, burnout, and attitudes towards patients with mentaldisorders among mental health nurses in Spain. A descriptive cross-sectional design was usedinvolving a sample of 750 specialist nurses working in mental health facilities in Spain. An intentional,non-probability, non-discriminative, exponential snowball sampling method was used. The JeffersonScale of Empathy, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, and the Community Attitudes towards MentalIllness Inventory were used to measure the study variables. A positive correlation was observedbetween empathy and all the study variables, with the exception of the personal accomplishmentdimension of burnout and the social restrictiveness and authoritarianism dimensions of attitudestowards mental illness, where a negative relation was observed. Our findings suggest that empathyis associated with an increase in positive attitudes towards patients with mental disorders, decreasingassociated stigma, but did not act as a protective factor against burnout in the study sample.
PB MDPI
SN 1660-4601
YR 2022
FD 2022-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26501
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26501
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 12-nov-2026