MEDICAL AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESILIENCE LEVEL AND QUALITY OF LIFE OF NURSES IN PALLIATIVE CARE UNITS
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https://doi.org/10.11603/2411-1597.2026.1.16265Keywords:
nurse, quality of life, psychological resilience, correlations, burnoutAbstract
Introduction. Nurses working in palliative care units regularly face patient death, which results in a substantial emotional burden and an increased risk of psychological trauma and professional burnout. An important factor in maintaining nurses’ mental health is psychological resilience, defined as the ability to adapt, recover, and effectively cope with professional challenges. The professional quality of life of nurses in palliative care units reflects their level of psycho-emotional well-being and stress resistance, which is defined by the specificity of their work involving constant interaction with terminally ill patients and the need to provide comprehensive support to both patients and their families.
The aim of the study – to determine the quality of life and the level of psychological resilience of nurses working in inpatient and outpatient palliative care settings and to identify the relationships between quality of life subscales and psychological resilience subscales.
The main part. This cross-sectional study included a survey of 23 nurses working in inpatient palliative care units and 18 nurses providing outpatient palliative care, using the ProQOL-Health and RSA questionnaires. The results demonstrated that nurses providing outpatient palliative care had significantly better quality of life indicators (p < 0.05), as well as a significantly higher level of psychological resilience. It was established that quality of life subscales were correlated with psychological resilience subscales, with the most pronounced and statistically significant relationships observed with the subscales of structure and self-perception.
Conclusions. Nurses working in inpatient palliative care units demonstrate significantly lower levels of quality of life and psychological resilience compared to nurses providing outpatient palliative care. Quality of life subscales show moderate and weak correlations with psychological resilience subscales.
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Accepted 2026-04-27
Published 2026-05-04
