Entradas con la etiqueta ‘Burnout’

José Raymundo Rodríguez-Moctezuma
Juan Manuel López-Carmona
María Luisa Peralta-Pedrero
Catarina Munguía-Miranda

Elizabeth López-León

Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social

Objective: to determinate the prevalence of burnout in family physicians of the Family Medicine Units in the Estado de México and its association with labor and socio demographics factors.

Material and methods: a transversal study was made in five Family Medicine Units. 154 physicians of both sex participated in this study. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) which measures the burnout in its three dimensions:

emotional fatigue (EC), depersonalization (DP) and personal realization (PR), was applied by self-administration. Sociodemographic and labor details were obtained.

Results: response rate was 85. A high CE was significantly associated to inadequate physical area, OR 3.9 CI 95 % 1.5-10.6; to work load OR 7.6 IC 95 % 1.6-50.7 and to lack of labor incentives OR 4.4 IC 95 % 1.7-11.9 depersonalization was associated only with salary OR 2.6 IC 95 % 1.05-6.4.

Conclusions: family physicians of Mexican Institute of Social Security have labor factors that are associated with burnout that can affect patient’s attention.

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Reynaldo Ermín Cetina-Tabares
Armando Gonzalo Chan-Canul
Luis Sandoval-Jurado

Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social

Objective: to determine the correlation between labour satisfaction and physician wear out.

Material and methods: there was a cross sectional study with all the family doctors from four Units of Family Medicine from Cancun (n = 102), with four or more years of medical practice.

The questionnaire Red Font was used for labour satisfaction and Maslach Burnout Inventory for professional wear out, as well as the coefficient of correlation of Kendall.

Results: the predominant level of labour satisfaction was the medium (50.5 %). the low level of wear out prevailed (50.5 %). Medical doctors with medium or high satisfaction had low to medium wear out, and those who were reported with low satisfaction had moderate and high wear out. In the analysis bivariate between labour satisfaction and professional wear out the association was statistically significant, although there was not correlation (Kendall = –0.281).

Conclusions: in contrast with other studies where they found an inversely proportional relationship,in this study any correlation was found. The ideal situation could be that all medical doctors develop high satisfaction and low professional wear of; however this didn’t happen through this study. It is very important to

study all the factors that have influence to elevate the professional wear of and dissatisfaction in our medical doctors to develop programs that allow to cope these problems.

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Aldo Vera
Lionel Cancino
Iris Ravanal
Claudia Carrasco
Gustavo Contreras
Oscar Arteaga

Universidad de Chile
Ministerio del Trabajo. Chile

Se realizó un estudio de tipo transversal en 135 funcionarios fiscalizadores de una repartición pública del Estado de Chile. Se estudió si existía asociación entre las dimensiones de Burnout, Inteligencia Emocional y Factores de Riesgos Psicosociales Laborales y se estimaron los predictores de las distintas dimensiones de Burnout. Resultados. Se encontró que Agotamiento Emocional correlacionó positivamente con Exigencias Psicológicas, Inseguridad Laboral y Atención a los Sentimientos, e inversamente con Estima de Superiores. Despersonalización correlacionó positivamente con Exigencia Psicológica, Inseguridad Laboral, e inversamente con Apoyo Social y con Reparación Emocional. El Logro Personal se asoció positivamente a Apoyo Social, Claridad de los Sentimientos y Reparación Emocional. Como predictores positivos de Agotamiento Emocional se encontraron la Exigencia Psicológica, Inseguridad Laboral y Atención a los Sentimientos, y como predictor negativo la Claridad de los Sentimientos. Para Despersonalización se encontró como predictor positivo a la Exigencia Psicológica y como negativo a la Reparación Emocional. Para el Logro Personal sólo se encontró como predictor positivo el Apoyo Social. Conclusión. A partir de los hallazgos realizados se desprende que la Inteligencia Emocional y los Factores de Riesgo Psicosocial Laboral son predictores de las dimensiones Burnout. (Vera A, Cancino L, Ravanal I, Carrasco. C, Contreras G, Arteaga O.2007. Burnout, Inteligencia Emocional y Factores de Riesgos Psicosociales Laborales en fiscalizadores de una repartición pública del Estado de Chile.

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Daniel Briones Mella

Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina.

The article refers to a quantitative research intended to verify the presence of the burnout syndrome and its relationship with strategies for coping with stress, performed on 115 “Carabineros”, both male and female, belonging to determined specialized units of “Carabineros de Chile”, to whom the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and the Coping Orientations to Problems Experienced Scale (C.O.P.E.) were applied. It was proved that a high percentage (48,7%) of personnel working in said police units which deal with human problems which are complex and have an impact (mistreatment and abuse of minors, deaths resulting from car accidents and major offenses), show high indicators of the syndrome . It was also found that married people showed a significantly augmented “Decrease of personal achievement” strategy compared with single women and that women used significantly more the “Religion” coping technique than men, as Institutional Appointed Personnel uses it more frequently compared with Government Appointed Personnel. Lastly, it was confirmed that strategies such as “Focusing on emotions”, “Mental disconnection” and “Search or social emotional support” predict significantly the “Emotional exhaustion” of the burnout syndrome, as “Denial”, “Mental disconnection” and “Behavioral Disconnection” predict the “Depersonalization” dimension.

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Clara Ivette Hernández-Vargas,
María Eloisa Dickinson
Miguel Ángel Fernández Ortega

Departamento de Medicina Familiar
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Burnout syndrome is increasingly observed among professionals, mainly physicians who work with people and are under the influence of external and internal special factors; external factors like those pertaining to institutions in which he works, and internal ligated to his personality. In this paper signs and symptoms are recorded and medical literature referring to the subject is analyzed. More observations are needed to understand the problem, add empirical evidences and establish routes to prevent and treat risk groups.

El síndrome de desgaste (Burnout) es un problema que se está presentando en profesionales que trabajan con personas, en especial en los médicos, por ser una profesión en la que influyen factores externos e internos que pueden desencadenar dicho padecimiento; por externos entendemos cuestiones institucionales e internos como la personalidad del trabajador. El propósito de este trabajo es dar un panorama general del síndrome de desgaste, considerando sus principales signos y síntomas para que los médicos identifiquen esta problemática en ellos y/o en sus compañeros de trabajo. Por otro lado, describir qué es lo que se ha estudiado referente a los médicos, que a su vez pueden generar alternativas del estudio en nuestro país. Se propone que se continúe con el estudio en médicos, retomando los aciertos y errores de los estudios realizados para contribuir a dar evidencias empíricas y así implementar estrategias de prevención e intervención en esta población de riesgo.

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Clara Ivette Hernández Vargas
Arturo Juárez García
Elena  Hernández Mendoza
José Antonio Ramírez Páez

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Burnout syndrome and cardiovascular somatic symptoms in nurses from a health facility in the Distrito Federal

Introduction: Burnout syndrome is relatively often present in personnel who work in health facilities as an affective psycho- social response of showing oneself emotionally exhausted; it is manifested through negative attitudes and feelings toward workers. Cardiovascular diseases are de most significant among the produced physical alterations.

Objectives: 1) To identify the level of Burnout Syndrome within a group of nurses in a health facility in the Distrito Federal; 2) To determine the relation between Burnout Syndrome, cardiovascular somatic symptoms, and blood pressure measurements. Methodology: In 109 nurses Bournout score was assessed through Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBIG-S) Core ver- sion with two subscales: emotional tiredness(0.85) and deperso- nalization (0.78); a questionnaire of cardiovascular symptoms and a protocol of estimated points of blood pressure at work. Results: 67% of nurses were predominant with medium Burnout score; low and high levels were represented with 19% and 14% respectively. It was obtained a significant correlation (r=348 p≤=0.01) between the cardiovascular symptoms and Bournout syndrome, as well as with the component of emotional tiredness (r=374 p≤=0.01). The relation between blood pressure and Burnout Syndrome it did not show significance.

Conclusions: The significant relation between cardiovascular symptoms and Burnout syndrome showed subjectively a first manifestation of cardiovascular disea- se which can be physically exposed latter. In the case of emotional tired- ness and cardiovascular symptoms, a hypothesis is founded: as long as phy- sical and emotional tiredness are per- ceived in and by working, there is an increment in presence of cardiovas- cular disease.

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Yessenia Gamonal Mosaurieta
Carmen García Vargas
Ines Silva Mathews

Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Lima, Perú.

The Burnout’s syndrome, is a state of tiredness or frustration made by the lack of recompense expected, after an effort dedicated, preceded by an stage of lack of motivation, production and inefficacy; these situation is one of the main causes of deterioration of job conditions, increase of accidents and labour absenteeism. Objective: to determine the existence of Burnout’s syndrome among nurses of critical units from a children health institution. Material and methods: the study was quantitative – descriptive and cross –sectional, made in five services of critical areas of a
health institution level III; population was formed by 132 professional nurses with a participation of 105 following inclusion and exclusion criteria; to data collect it was used the self-applied questionnaire of Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) in translated and validated version in Peru; through personal interviews and deliver of instrument in close envelop; data analysis was made through descriptive statistic with univariated and bivariated analysis with the help of SPSS v. 13. Results: 78.1% had Burnout’s syndrome trend, mainly low level in all dimensions: depersonalization, emotional tiredness 66.7% and personal performance 65.7%; al nurses showed low personal performance; however, at surgical room and emergency they showed emotional tiredness in a medium level as well (30.4% and 33.9% respectively). Conclusion: high Burnout’s syndrome trend with low personal performance in all critical areas, especially surgical room.

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Juan Antonio Moriana Elvira
Javier Herruzo Cabrera

(Universidad de Córdoba, España)

In the present theoretical study the main discoveries and researches in teachers´ stress and burnout are reviewed. In first place, studies focused on isolating the different causes of sociodemografic, organizational and personality type are analysed.

Immediately after, the theoretical models that try to explain this phenomenon are presented as well as other related variables and the personal, familiar and organizational consequences associated to them. Finally, the main evaluation instruments and the latest tendencies in prevention and intervention are presented. After having revised in
detail the existing scientific literature on this topic, some limitations are detected in the used methodology with teachers as well as the inadequacy of the methodological approaches assigned to them. The data point out bigger indexes of absenteeism and leaves of absence, this situation implies a high cost for the Educational Administration.
Thus it is that, we propose a reflection on these aspects as well as in the convenience of adopting experimental designs and systems of early detection and prevention.

Carla C. Lima Aranzaes
Arturo Juárez García

Objective. To identify stressors perceived by collective public transport drivers from the municipality of Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.

Material and methods. A semi structured interview was conducted to 191 collective public transport drivers of the main public service transportation.

Results. It was revealed the presence of fifteen major stressors in the sample survey, which includes traffic, the time pressures that drivers
usually have and the pressure to complete daily a certain amount of money.

Conclusions. The study identified stressors similar to those reported in other investigations carried out in similar populations, as well as specific stressors of the study context. It is suggested that future studies relate these stressors with other variables such as physical and mental health in collective public transport drivers.

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Carlo Canepa
José Luis Briones
Claudio Pérez
Aldo Vera
Arturo Juárez

This study explored the association between dimensions of a job-stress model, Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI), and a mental health model, the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28). The exploratory study was based on interviews and self-response questionnaires given to 68 health care workers at three worksites in Santiago, Chile (a large public hospital, a large private hospital, and a primary care clinic). The participants included nursing assistants, technicians, and administrative staff from various departments. Positive associations were found between bad mental health and job stress.

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