Secondary traumatisation, burn-out and functional impairment: Findings from a study of Danish child protection workers

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dc.contributor.authorLouison Vang, M., Shevlin, M., Hansen, M., Lund, L., Askerod, D., Bramsen, R. H., & Flanagan, N.
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-19T14:12:53Z
dc.date.available2023-05-19T14:12:53Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractBackground: Child-protection workers are at elevated risk for secondary traumatization. However, research in the area of secondary traumatization has been hampered by two major obstacles: the use of measures that have unclear or inadequate psychometric properties and equivocal findings on the degree of associated functional impairment. Objective: To assess the relationship between secondary traumatization and burnout using exploratory structural equation modelling (ESEM) and to assess the relationship between secondary traumatization and functional impairment. Methods: A survey of Danish child-protection workers was conducted through the Danish Children Centres (N = 667). Secondary traumatization was measured using the Professional Quality of Life-5 (ProQoL-5) and burnout using the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory. Results: A three-factor ESEM model provided the best fit to the data, reflecting factors consistent with the structure of secondary traumatization and burnout. The factors were differentially related to trauma-related and organizational variables in ways consistent with existing evidence. All factors were significantly related to functional impairment. Conclusion: The findings supported the discriminant validity of secondary traumatization and burnout while highlighting methodological issues around the current use of sum-score approaches to investigating secondary traumatization. The current study supported the clinical relevance of secondary traumatization by linking it explicitly to social and cognitive functional impairment.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLouison Vang, M., Shevlin, M., Hansen, M., Lund, L., Askerod, D., Bramsen, R. H., & Flanagan, N. (2020). Secondary traumatisation, burn-out and functional impairment: findings from a study of Danish child protection workers. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 11(1), 1724416.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20008198.2020.1724416
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/5851
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatologyen_US
dc.subjectchild protection workersen_US
dc.subjectfunctional impairmenten_US
dc.subjectchild welfareen_US
dc.subjectexploratory structural equation modellingen_US
dc.subjectsecondary traumatizationen_US
dc.subjectInternational Resourcesen_US
dc.subjectDenmarken_US
dc.subjectorganizational variablesen_US
dc.subjectburnouten_US
dc.titleSecondary traumatisation, burn-out and functional impairment: Findings from a study of Danish child protection workersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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