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5 LIMITATIONS
Apart from the results, there are several limitations
of this study such as all participants were mostly
women which makes the results cannot be
generalized. Moreover, this study only describes the
nurses’ ProQoL with a minimum sample and explore
the relationship between each aspect of ProQoL
(BO, STS and CS) with nurses’ characteristics (age,
marital status, and work experience, gender and
education level). The result showed there were no
significant correlation found between nurses’
characteristics with each aspect of ProQoL.
Therefore, further study related to other factors
might be beneficial to be studied. Some resources
mention that there are so many factors that might
impact on someone’s professional quality of life that
might be interesting to be studied in the future
research.
6 CONCLUSIONS
To conclude, it is crucial to assess the three aspects
of professional quality of life of nurses who
especially provide a palliative care. As it was
mention that nurses who provide care to those
palliative patients may develop the three aspects of
ProQoL. However, more training and professional
development for nurses may help nurses to be able
to cope with any possibility of compassion fatigue
incidence. Moreover, it is important for further study
to assess the relationship between each aspect in
professional’s quality of life of nurses, the
connection of compassion fatigue, burn out and
secondary traumatic stress. It would be beneficial for
the next researchers to assess factors that may cause
the occurrence of compassion fatigue to nurses
providing the palliative care.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to thank Faculty of nursing
Universitas Pelita Harapan for an ethical clearance
approval and to all nurses who participated in this
study. Moreover, we would like to show our
gratitude to Ni Gusti Ayu Eka who has given us
permission to use The ProQoL questionnaire in
Indonesian version. We are also thanking Dwi
Yulianto who has given his time to proofreading this
manuscript and made some comments and
suggestions.
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