Síndrome de Burnout en profesionales de la salud de Portoviejo

Abstract

Burnout syndrome is a problem that involves both physical and mental health, interpersonal relationships and work performance. It can be associated with multiple individuals, internal, external and work-related factors. At a global level, it goes increasing significantly and tends to occur mostly in health professionals, or those
who work directly in humanitarian services. Therefore, the objective of this research is to determine the prevalence of burnout syndrome in health professionals in Portoviejo. The research design is non-experimental, with a quantitative approach and a cross-sectional descriptive scope. Within the methodology, the analyticalsynthetic, inductive-deductive method, content analysis, bibliographic review and the statistical-descriptive method were applied. The sample used was 40 health professionals from the San Francisco de Portoviejo clinic, with more than 3 months of experience working at the institution. An analysis of the dimensions was carried out according to sex, a prevalence of burnout syndrome of 22.5% was found in the sample studied, with a high level of emotional exhaustion of 7.5% and a medium level of 15%, depersonalization with a high level of 12.5% and medium level of 10% and
personal fulfillment with a low level of 22.5%. These results allow us to define that there is a low level of burnout syndrome at the San Francisco Clinic in Portoviejo.