Introduction: There is a substantiated correlation between being under traumatic stress and mental ill-health andmay cause direct psychological impact on employees having empathetic tasks in their profession. The purposeof this study is to determine to what extent the correlation between neuroticism and perceived level of compassionfatigue exists. Method: In this quantitative study 132 geographically spread care workers working with noninstitutionalcare within municipal units were asked to respond to 2 surveys. The estimation of compassion fatigueconsisted of a total 10 questions various to 20 questions for the experience of neuroticism. Result: 52 (N=52)completed surveys (39%). The result indicates that more than half of the participants (57%) met the criteria basedon a high-risk group. A correlation analysis indicates a significant relationship between compassion fatigue andneuroticism (r=0.496, p=0.000). The correlation is positive and confirms the question formulation that individualswho have low emotional stability (Neuroticism) tend to estimate themselves highly in compassion fatigue.Discussion: The study's results confirm issue that the personal involved in home -based treatment, tend to exposethemselves to a high risk of being affected by the condition compassion fatigue. The majority of this studyparticipants (59%) had scores that according PROQL's risk level high (Stamm, 2010)