Síndrome de Burnout en profesionales de la salud en un hospital privado de la ciudad de Quito en el año 2017

Abstract

The term “burnout” was used for the first time by the northamerican psychologist Herbert Freudenberger in 1974. He described it as a feeling of exhaustion or professional wear out. Is a state of fatigue and frustration that affects people while working. This investigation is motivated by the lack of relevance of the burnout syndrome in our country. The purpose is to find the syndrome’s main characteristics in the healthcare professionals, and to share this information for future studies. Different measuring instruments were applied to achieve this: sociodemographic questionnaire, MBI questionnaire, (GHQ-28) questionnaire, BRIEF-COPE questionnaire, AS questionnaire, EPQR-A questionnaire. This investigation was made to the healthcare personal of private hospital in Quito city. The sample were 10 doctors and 10 nurses. After analyzing the data collected during the research, two burnout cases were found on the healthcare professionals. This two cases represent a 20% of the total participants of this study. Because of this, early detection of the syndrome must be a priority on the healthcare professionals