Burnout syndrome in doctors and nursing staff Basic Hospital of Limones – Ecuador

Abstract

Introduction.  Burnout syndrome is an occupational condition produced as a response to prolonged pressures that a person suffers from emotional and interpersonal stressors directly related to work and that especially affects health personnel due to the implications of the profession, such as long working hours, organizational pressures, coexistence with suffering and death, among others. Objective. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the presence of Burnout Syndrome in physicians and nursing personnel of the Basic Hospital of Limones, Ecuador. Methodology. Through the application of the Maslach Burnout Invetory (MBI) questionnaire. For this purpose, a qualitative-quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study was identified, which included 33 health professionals (18 nurses and 15 physicians) from the emergency, hospitalization, and operating rooms to whom a questionnaire of sociodemographic data and work characteristics and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) were applied. Results.  The results provided by the study are that emotional exhaustion was predominantly low (45.8%), depersonalization was low in 37.5% and high in 33.3%, personal fulfillment was low in 70.8%. Conclusion. In conclusion, burnout syndrome was present in health professionals especially in those of female gender, age 31-40 years, marital status single-divorced, staff without children, being a physician