Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL 5)
Professional Quality of Life Scale, version 5 (ProQOL 5): Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue · 30 statements · about 6 minutes · for adults 18 and over · For people in helping roles
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ProQOL 5 questions
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When you [help] people you have direct contact with their lives. As you may have found, your compassion for those you [help] can affect you in positive and negative ways. Below are some questions about your experiences, both positive and negative, as a [helper]; note that the words [help] and [helper] can be replaced with more specific terms, such as [teach] and [teacher] or [nurse]. Consider each of the following questions about you and your current work situation. Select the number that honestly reflects how frequently you experienced these things in the last 30 days.
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Beth Hudnall Stamm (2009). Professional Quality of Life: Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue Version 5 (ProQOL). © The Center for Victims of Torture. This measure may be freely copied as long as the author is credited, no changes are made, and it is not sold. Its terms allow the bracketed words [help] and [helper], and their forms, to be replaced with a more specific term; when you choose a profession on the page, only those words change. Visit ProQOL.org for the most current version. ProQOL.org All screening tools · Chat with us
Profession words substituted as the measure’s terms allow; the measure is otherwise unchanged.
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