Fear and Coping with Death in Intensive Care Nurses: a Structural Model Predictor of Compassion Fatigue

To determine the effect of fear and coping with death on compassion fatigue in nurses working in the intensive care unit. Correlational-predictive design, applied in 245 nurses working in the intensive care unit through intentional sampling. The study applied a personal data card, the Collet-Lester Fear of Death Scale (α=0.72), the Bugen Fell of Death Scale (α=0.82), and the Empathy Exhaustion Scale (α=0.80). Descriptive and inferential statistics were performed, such as Spearman's test and a structural equation model. The work had 255 nurses who participated, finding a relationship among fear and coping toward death and compassion fatigue (p