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Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc 2005; 43 (1)

Burnout syndrome among Mexican hospital nursery staff

Cabrera GLS, López RP, Salinas TS, Ochoa TJG, Marín CIA, Haro GL

Language: English
References: 31
Page: 11-15
PDF size: 135.01 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Objective: To identify frequency and related factors to burnout syndrome in the nursing staff at a specialty hospital in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.
Materials and Methods: A prolective, analytical cross-sectional study was carried out. In 236 randomly selected nurses, a 35-item questionnaire proposed by Cyberia Shink was applied in a blind survey. Seniority, workplace, shift and kind of service, work category, age and marital status were investigated for a link with burnout syndrome.
Results: Mean age of nursing personnel was 33 ± 11.93 years with 13 ± 7.2 years of seniority; 95 (40%) workers showed emotional exhaustion, 78 (32%) felt dehumanized, 148 (63%) had lost interest in their work, and 120 (50%) reported general exhaustion. From the studied nursing personnel, 92 (39%) showed burnout syndrome-compatible data. There were statistical differences with nurses without burnout syndrome age ‹33 years (p = 0.001), seniority (p = 0.05), and workplace (p = 0.05), but not with kind of medical service (p = 0.36), shift (p = 0.86), and work category (p = 0.96). Questionnaire validity in agreement with alpha Cronbach test was 0.7496. Relation between professional attrition and work environment was r = 0.738.
Conclusions: The instrument can be relied upon to identify burnout syndrome and is considered as acceptable. Age, seniority, and workplace are factors linked to nursing staff with burnout syndrome-compatible data. Employers, managers, and supervisors of health care services must promote preventive actions for burnout syndrome to synchronize present work conditions in nursing staff with their biologic characteristics.


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