Síndrome de Burnout en médicos: una revisión bibliográfica

Abstract

Abstract:Mental health is a key component of health, the latter being defined as the state of physical, mental and social well-being of the individual, and not merely the absence of medical conditions or diseases. There are several factors and sociodemographic variables that determine the state of mental health of the individual and among them are excessive workload, that can lead to the individual presenting burnout syndrome. Our review bibliographic narrative is proposed with the objective of determining the main factors of risk or protection associated with burnout syndrome. The search strategy is carried out in the databases "Virtual Health Library (VHL)" and "PubMed", analyzing a total of 14 articles, finding as a result that the main risk factors are work overload, poor coping mechanisms, bad work environment, job dissatisfaction and depressive symptoms accompanied by stress; while The best known protective factors are physical exercise, restful sleep and adequate coping strategies; concluding that any positive factor that is not present or that it does so in a negative way, becomes a risk factor.