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Enfermería Actual de Costa Rica
versão On-line ISSN 1409-4568versão impressa ISSN 1409-4568
Resumo
FEDEL, Isabelle Lourenço; GNATTA, Juliana Rizzo e TURRINI, Ruth Natalia Teresa. Flower therapy effect on the quality of professional life in nursing residents: pilot study. Enfermería Actual de Costa Rica [online]. 2023, n.45, 56111. ISSN 1409-4568. http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/enferm.actual.cr.i45.49923.
Introduction:
The nursing resident is exposed to stressful situations that impact the quality of their professional life. Integrative and complementary health practices can contribute to promoting physical, mental, and spiritual well-being.
Objective:
To evaluate the effect of flower essence therapy on the aspects of the professional quality of life (compassion fatigue - burnout and secondary traumatic stress - and compassion satisfaction) of nursing residents in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods:
Quasi-experimental pilot before and after study with 16 resident nurses from teaching hospitals, who answered a sociodemographic questionnaire and the Professional Quality of Life Scale 4 (ProQOL-4). The emergency formula associated with Walnut of the Bach Flower Remedies (FiveW) was used for three weeks with a three-week follow-up. Data were analyzed descriptively. The effect of the intervention was evaluated by the paired Student's t-test and by the mixed effects model, with a significance level of 5%.
Results:
Floral therapy reduced the score of the Secondary Traumatic Stress subscale of ProQOL-4 (p=0.017) with a residual effect after the follow-up. There was interaction between the year of residency and the program specialty in the Satisfaction for Compassion and Burnout subscales; and also between the program specialty and the COVID-19 infection of a close person in the Secondary Traumatic Stress and Burnout subscales (p<0.05).
Conclusion:
The FiveW floral formula showed a reduction in Secondary Traumatic Stress scores, evidencing that floral therapy can contribute as a complementary strategy to improve the quality of professional life.
Palavras-chave : Compassion Fatigue; Nurses; Complementary Therapies.