Abstract
to verify Burnout Syndrome prevalence among nursing technicians of an adult Intensive Care Unit and associate prevalence with sociodemographic and clinical data. a cross-sectional study carried out in an adult Intensive Care Unit of a large public hospital in southern Brazil, between March and April/2018. Prevalence was assessed using the Maslach Burnout Inventory. 122 nursing technicians participated (aged 39±2.5 years), 76% being women. Burnout Syndrome prevalence was 19.7% and 62.9%. There was a significant association between Burnout Syndrome and depression (p=0.004), as well as Burnout Syndrome and comorbidities (p=0.033), when less conservative criteria were adopted. the findings are relevant to professionals in this area and may contribute to adopting strategies to combat Burnout Syndrome.
Highlights
OBJECTIVEIntensive Care Units (ICUs) are specialized units that serve severely affected patients daily
Considering that there is a significant relationship between Burnout Syndrome and mental health, the hospital reality - in ICUs - has been a cause for the professional stress of workers, which may evolve to Burnout Syndrome (BS)(3), defined as syndrome psychological related to service provision and due to chronic emotional overload at work
High BS prevalence presented in the present study is corroborated by results previously presented in a Brazilian observational study[22], conducted with 130 general and cardiac ICU nursing professionals from two large hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, which demonstrated BS prevalence of 55.3%.The findings showed that more than a third of workers had high Emotional exhaustion (EE) (37.7%), in addition to the inverse association between this variable and work performance[22]
Summary
OBJECTIVEIntensive Care Units (ICUs) are specialized units that serve severely affected patients daily. Considering that there is a significant relationship between Burnout Syndrome and mental health, the hospital reality - in ICUs - has been a cause for the professional stress of workers, which may evolve to Burnout Syndrome (BS)(3), defined as syndrome psychological related to service provision and due to chronic emotional overload at work. Vulnerability to development increases when it involves a significant burden of responsibility, protection and care for others[5]. Professional activities directly linked to patients have been considered to trigger BS. Professionals such as nursing technicians, who perform their activities at the bedside, are more vulnerable[2]. The translation of the word Burnout summarizes how exhausted professionals feel: “being consumed by fire”(8)
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