Secondary traumatization and proneness to dissociation among palliative care workers: A cross sectional study

Exposure to dying patients can contribute to secondary traumatic stress among palliative care workers. Peritraumatic dissociation, an individual's personal proneness to dissociation during exposure to a stressful event, is the strongest predictor of post-traumatic stress, but existing research on its relationship to secondary traumatic stress is limited.

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