Cómo prevenir el burnout: diferentes definiciones e interpretaciones

¿Es posible anticiparse a la aparición del burnout? ¿Por qué hay unos colectivos de profesionales más expuestos que otros? Una adecuada información sobre la realidad del ejercicio profesional, así como informes y cuestionarios sobre el clima laboral y las percepciones de los empleados son algunas de las medidas que se proponen para anticiparse al síndrome de desgaste profesional

Síndrome de burnout em professores universitários

A presente investigação teve como objetivo conhecer a Síndrome de Burnout em Professores do Ensino Superior, bem como identificar qual a influência das variáveis sociodemográficas, situacionais e de interação social, como sendo determinantes do fenómeno de Burnout relativamente às suas três dimensões, no modelo proposto por Maslach. Foram preenchidos 127 questionários, distribuídos por várias faculdades a nível nacional, tendo sido utilizado para este estudo o inventário de Burnout de Maslach (Maslach Burnout Inventory - MBI). Destes 127 professores, 58 são do sexo feminino (45,7 %) e 69 do sexo masculino (54,3 %) com idade mínima de 26 e máxima de 76, cuja média se situa nos 45,5 (M= 45,54; DP= 8,708). Constatou-se que no grupo das variáveis sociodemográficas, apenas a variável “habilitações literárias”, apresenta diferenças estatisticamente significativas. No grupo das variáveis situacionais, verificaram-se diferenças estatisticamente significativas nas variáveis “leciona em horário diurno e/ou noturno”, “número de horas despendidas na preparação de aulas/correção de trabalhos” e na variável “têm outra atividade profissional para além da atividade docente”. Também apresenta diferenças estatisticamente significativas a variável de interação social, “horas dedicadas a atividades de lazer e convívio”.

Síndrome de burnout e valores de vida nos Bombeiros Sapadores da Câmara Municipal de Coimbra

Os valores de vida são um assunto cada vez mais investigado, dado assumirem influência nas atitudes e comportamentos em contexto laboral. As consequências do burnout refletem impactos marcantes quer na pessoa quer na organização. Assim, este estudo procurou identificar os valores cristalizados na função de bombeiro, uma das mais visadas pelo burnout, com o propósito de compreender em que medida podem contribuir para neutralizar e/ou atenuar os riscos psicossociais, em sede daquela síndrome, e desta forma gerar condições de defesa em termos profissionais e pessoais. O estudo, com aplicação do Maslash Burnout Inventory (MBI) e do Life Values Inventory (LVI), foi concretizado na Companhia de Bombeiros Sapadores da Câmara Municipal de Coimbra numa amostra de 84 bombeiros. Os principais resultados foram níveis baixos nas dimensões Exaustão Emocional e Despersonalização e níveis moderados na dimensão Realização Profissional, o que veio confirmar a literatura nomeadamente no que refere à Síndrome de Burnout neste tipo de amostra. Os resultados apontam para uma relação condicionante entre os valores de vida e o burnout.

Work context, personal control, and burnout amongst nurses

While situational factors such as high workloads have been found to be predictive of burnout, not all people in the same work context develop burnout. This suggests that individual factors are implicated in susceptibility to burnout. We investigated the relationships between care type (acute/chronic), neuroticism, control (primary/secondary), and symptoms of burnout (exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced professional efficacy) amongst 21 chronic care nurses and 83 acute care nurses working in a public hospital in regional Australia. Similar levels of burnout symptomatology and neuroticism were found in each group of nurses, and neuroticism was found to be associated with exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced professional efficacy in the total sample of nurses. Our prediction that primary control would protect against burnout symptoms in acute care nurses was supported only for professional efficacy, and the prediction that secondary control would protect against burnout in chronic care nurses was not supported.

Burnout in the caring nurse: learning resilient behaviours

This paper reviews current literature to offer a discussion related to burnout, an issue that affects the entire healthcare sector, including nurses and patients. Literature suggests a correlation between moral distress and burnout in nurses. These issues are considered to be current and affect recruitment and retention of nurses. The authors propose supporting nurses by using knowledge of resilient behaviours as a means of transcending burnout and workplace stress. The authors believe that this process can be achieved through existing hospital professional development processes, for example supervision, reflective practice, in-service education and other forms of professional development.

Reactions to increased workload: effects on professional efficacy of nurses

Research findings support the idea that workload is a significant stressor associated with a variety of deleterious psychological reactions, including burnout, in several different samples of workers. A theoretical model is put forth in the present study in which workload is seen as contributing to distress and depression. Increasingly, organisations are experiencing changes as a result of extensive downsizing, restructuring, and merging. As a result of fiscal restraint, hospitals have been forced to merge, close, downsize, and restructure. Workloads have increased among hospital staff, particularly nurses. This study applies a theoretical model to the understanding of the impact of workload on nurses employed in hospitals experiencing downsizing, particularly on their distress, burnout, and depression. Respondents were 488 nurses who were employed in hospitals that were undergoing restructuring and in which units had already been closed as a result of restructuring. Results of structural equation modeling showed that the data partially fit the model and that workload contributed substantially to levels of depression through distress reactions. Further results showed that cynicism, anger, and emotional exhaustion significantly operationalised distress reactions. This study is unique theoretically in linking anger, cynicism, and emotional exhaustion in a single model that predicts distress levels from workload. The findings that anger, cynicism, and emotional exhaustion operationalised distress indicate the importance of studying patterns of negative reactions and their consequences for depression. Implications of the results are discussed for interventions that can be taken by organisations in order to reduce workloads.

Healthy or burnout

A model of stress, employee health and intention to quit, was tested among psychiatric nurses. Results indicated that organizational support and employees' sense of control positively mediate the stressor-health relationship at individual and organizational levels, while work-family conflict worsens employee health and increases intention to quit. The professional portfolio explores the association between depression and cognitive functioning, and its impact on the use of cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of depression.

BURNOUT: analisando a síndrome do ramo das indústrias alimentícias do Rio Grande do Norte

This paper aims to verify the Burnout´s possibilities of incidence, finding the creating dimensions and comparing with the socio-demographics characteristics of the researched professionals. This quantitative-descriptive search has a population of 197 workers of 23 nourishing companies in Rio Grande do Norte. This population is predominantly male, younger than 28 years old, single, relatively instructed (57,07% with complete high school) and having just started their current job since 79% of the interviewees are in the company less than six years. The AUDITORIA DO SISTEMA HUMANO (ASH) model, utilized for investigation and developed for the Spaniards Quijano and Navarro in 1999, has several dimensions about human resources management and the organizational effectiveness, but only makes part of the research in 19 questions Burnout referring. It was used factorial analyses with extraction method, varimax rotation and Kaiser normalization with the intuition to define the creating dimensions of the syndrome, they were evaluated with Cronbach Alpha coefficient after extraction. The dimensions found through the factorial analyses were: emotional exhaustion, physical exhaustion and vitality. The accumulated explanation value reached 65,30% of total variation. The data socio-demographics don t justify the syndrome appearance, because the T test and ANOVA showed irrelevant values. It has been also observed that the founded dimensions were different of the Maslach sociopsychological perspective (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and low professional realization) allowing comparison with others researches and the possibility to develop new ones with workers from different assistance areas. These new researches are important, since the syndrome refers to chronic labor stress consequences and any professional is favorable to Burnout, harmful to the company as to the collaborators

A Relação entre a saúde organizacional e a Síndrome de Burnout

We studied about the organizational health and the syndrome of burnout in professionals of the education and health field, with the objective of establishing a connection between those two constructs. This research was realized in three public schools and in three hospitals, two publics and one from the military. We obtained 168 valid questionnaires for investigation about the syndrome of burnout, being 83 in the hospitals and 85 in the schools, among the questionnaires given in those two organizations. Worked with accidental sample, although it was decided the professional proportions, with the objective of reproducing the population characteristics. In the schools the sample was planned with the teachers. In the hospitals the sample was planned with doctors, nurses and nurse assistants, nutritionists, psychologists, dentists and social assistants. To assure the syndrome of burnout, it was used the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), followed with social demographic information. We used semi-structured interviews, based in the indicators, with the organizations key persons, directors, coordinators, and people involved in the human resources department, for research about the organizational health. Only among the hospitals were found significant statistics differences between the scores of factors and the incidence of burnout. Besides that, it was observed as well that it is possible to establish a connection between the organizational health and the syndrome of burnout, this research main objective

As fontes de desgaste físico e emocional e a Síndrome de Burnout no setor de transporte coletivo urbano de Natal

Recognizing the importance the workplace has on mental health of the individual, the objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between the burnout syndrome and the sources of physical and emotional wear which permeate the work conditions of the urban public transport system of the city of Natal. Although existent in international literature, research on burnout in the professional transport category and studies directed to this category are not a tradition in Brazil. The research was carried out using 412 drivers and money-changers of two transport companies of Natal. To collect the data, two questionnaires and a semi-structured interview were used. The first instrument, developed and validated during the research, investigated the sources of wear and the second, the syndrome of burnout. As its main results, two sources of empirical wear were identified as follows: (1) the Conflict of Values and the Lack of Justice at the Workplace, (2) Union and Reward. Besides these, it was observed that there is an incidence of the syndrome of burnout among the drivers and money-changers of urban transport by bus, not only in the caring occupations studied before in Natal and Brazil and that this incidence is related to the sources of wear which permeate the work conditions of these professionals

Síndrome de Burnout em graduandos de Odontologia

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Síndrome de Burnout e o consumo de álcool em funcionários de penitenciárias do município de Itirapina-SP

Pós-graduação em Alimentos e Nutrição - FCFAR

Burnout e enfrentamento em jogadores de futebol: fases pré e durante competição

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Prevalence of burnout syndrome in clinical nurses at a hospital of excellence

Background: Burnout syndrome can be defined as long-term work stress resulting from the interaction between constant emotional pressure associated with intense interpersonal involvement for long periods of time and personal characteristics. We investigated the prevalence/propensity of Burnout syndrome in clinical nurses, and the factors related to Burnout syndrome-associated such as socio-demographic characteristics, work load, social and family life, leisure activities, extra work activities, physical activities, and work-related health problems. Method: We conducted a cross-sectional, quantitative, prospective epidemiological study with 188 surgical clinic nurses. We used the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), which is a socio-demographic questionnaire and the most widely used instrument to assess Burnout syndrome (three basic dimensions: emotional exhaustion, despersonalization and professional underachievement). The socio-demographic profile questionnaire wascomposed of questions regarding identification, training, time at work, work characteristics and personal circumstances. Results: The prevalence of Burnout syndrome was higher (10.1%) and 55, 4% of subjects had a propensity to develop this syndrome. The analysis of the socio-demographic profile of the nurse sample studied showed that most nurses were childless married women, over 35 years of age, working the day shift for 36 hours weekly on average, with 2-6 years of post-graduation experience, and without extra employments. Factors such as marital status, work load, emotion and work related stress aggravated the onset of the syndrome. Conclusion: The prevalence and propensity of Burnout syndrome were high. Some factors identified can be useful for the adoption of preventive actions in order to decrease the prevalence of the clinical nurses Burnout syndrome.

Síndrome de burnout em dentistas do serviço público

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