Compassion Stress among HIV Infected Peoples Volunteer Caregivers in Addis ketema (The case of NGOs volunteers)
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2011-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The study describes the situation compassion stress among volunteer care givers as it was
designed to describe how volunteer caregivers cope with and fail to compassion stress. Social
factors or personal qualities to the susceptibility or non susceptibility to CS prevailed on
volunteer caregivers and the respective actual and perceived difficulties of the failure to
compassion stress to care givers in the study area were examined. The study took a strictly
designed survey to view the objective reality of respondents as it is. In this study, cross sectional
survey for descriptive analysis method were employed with the intent of investigating the current
condition and level of susceptibility among care givers. The data collected was analyzed through
a soft ware known as statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 16 to generate
descriptive statistics and to measure the association and relationship between the identified
independent and dependent variables. The study used models called linear regression, paired
correlation and bi-variant correlation matrix in the analysis. The extent to which a caregiver
experiences psychological burden including compassion stress depends up on their personal
protective or precipitating characteristics. To state some example, Compassion stress has a
significant variation among different age group. With regard to marital status, as it goes from
unmarried to married, divorced and widow compassion stress experienced by care givers
decreases. Again, Self efficacy is found to be one of the protective factors of CS
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