Professional Quality of Life
Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue
and Secondary Traumatic Stress
Compassion Satisfaction, Compassion Fatigue
and Secondary Traumatic Stress
ProQOl Test Manuals
This page is for the most current versions of the ProQOL Manuals. Manuals are dated so that you can make sure you have the most current manual.
The ProQOL is the current version of the measures know as the Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue Test, the Compassion Fatigue Test and the Compassion Fatigue Self-Test. We no longer support these earlier versions of the ProQOL and strongly advise that it not be used due to the known psychometric problems.
The ProQOL materials, the test and the manuals, may be freely copied as long as (a) author is credited, (b) no changes are made other than those authorized below, and (c) it is not sold.
The ProQOL Concise Manual Table of Contents
This table of contents is not linked to the manual. To see the full manual, click on ProQOL Manual.
· Section 1: Compassion Satisfaction and Compassion
Fatigue
o Figure 1: Diagram of Professional Quality of Life
o Background
o Figure 2: Theoretical path analysis
· Section 2: Scale Definitions
o Compassion Satisfaction
o Compassion Fatigue
· Section 3: Scale Properties
o Scale Distribution
o Table 1: ProQOL Moments
o Reliability
o Validity
· Section 4: Administration of the ProQOL
o Individual Administration
o Group Administration
o Research Administration
· Section 5: ProQOL scoring
o Calculating the Scores on The ProQOL
o Scale Definitions and Scores
o Cut Scores
o Table 2: Cut Scores for the ProQOL
· Section 6: Interpreting the ProQOL
o The ProQOL Is Not Diagnostic
o The Importance of Knowing More than Just the ProQOL
Scores
o Scores Across Demographic Categories
o Table 3: Gender
o Table 4: Age Group
o Table 4: Race
o Table 5: Income Group
o Table 6: Years at Current Employer
o Table 7: Years in Field
o Interpreting Individual Scales
o Compassion Satisfaction
o Compassion Fatigue
o Interpreting Scale Scores in Combination
o High Compassion Satisfaction, Moderate to Low Burnout
and Secondary Traumatic Stress
o High Burnout, Moderate to Low Compassion Satisfaction
and Secondary Traumatic Stress
o High Secondary Traumatic Stress with Low Burnout and
Low Compassion Satisfaction
o High Secondary Traumatic Stress and High Compassion
Satisfaction with Low Burnout
o High Secondary Traumatic Stress and High Burnout with
Low Compassion Satisfaction
o Interpreting the ProQOL at a Group Level
o Section 7: Using the ProQOL for Decision Making
o Changing the Person-Event Interaction
o Monitoring Change Across Time
· Section 8: The ProQOL Test and Handout
o Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL)
o ProQOL Self Scoring Worksheet
o Your Scores on The ProQOL: Professional Quality Of Life
Scale
· SECTION 9: Converting from the ProQOL IV to the
ProQOL 5
o Table for Determining ProQOL t-Score from Raw Scores
Dr. Beth Hudnall Stamm, Ph.D., http://www.proqol.org and Idaho State University
Craig Higson-Smith, M.A., South African Institute of Traumatic Stress
Amy C. Hudnall, M.A., Appalachian State University
Dr. Henry E. Stamm, Ph.D., Pocatello, ID, U.S.A.
Khabir, BA, webmaster