Identificación del Burnout en profesionales de la salud y factores relacionados con este fenómeno, en el Ecuador

Abstract

Health workers in particular doctors and nurses live in a life and death scenario every day, this commitment can be physically and emotionally destructive, leading to behavioral problems such as burnout. This paper aims to identify the prevalence of burnout syndrome in physicians and nurses at a public institution in the city of Loja. The methodology used is quantitative because it analyzes the numerical instruments, not experimental because the variables are not manipulated, it is also transversal because it analyzes variables at a given time; for which 20 physicians and 20 nurses of this institution have participated in the application of six instruments, these were sociodemographic and labor records, as well as questionnaires: MBI of Maslach, mental health, coping, social support and personality. At the end of this investigation, a case of burnout was registered in the nursing staff, due to its greater involvement with the patients.