Determinants of Moral Distress Among Mental Health Professionals

It is assumed that understanding moral distress and its correlated factors among mental health professionals would enhance understanding of the ethical dilemmas that mental health professionals are confronting.

To identify moral distress determinants among Jordanian mental health professionals working in psychiatric in-patient settings.

A cross-sectional descriptive design was used, employing self-administered questionnaire.

Two- steps multiple hierarchical regression analysis showed that model 1 that includes the demographic characteristics, was significant with R² = .151, while in model 2 that included demographics and the psychological characteristics of stress factors, it was found to be also significant R² = .243.

Morally distressing environments might diminish the quality of psychiatric care provided as well as the job satisfaction among healthcare providers.