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1984 – Burnout Syndrome And Quality Of Life Among Intensivists Physicians Residents In Salvador, Bahia, Brasil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

M. Andrade-Mascimento ,
D.S. Barros  and
C.L. Nascimento Sobrinho
M. Andrade-Mascimento
Affiliation:
Departamento de Saúde, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil
D.S. Barros
Affiliation:
Departamento de Saúde, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil
C.L. Nascimento Sobrinho
Affiliation:
Departamento de Saúde, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil

Abstract

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Introduction

There are few studies on burnout doctors in Brazil.

Objectives/aims

Describe prevalence of the Burnout syndrome in intensive care physicians of Salvador, and evaluate if there are correlation between aspects of Life Quality and the Burnout Syndrome.

Methods

A cross sectional study assessed the correlation between Life Quality and Burnout Syndrome in a population of 333 Intensive Care Physicians from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. An individual, self-report questionnaire evaluated the Life Quality' domains, using the WHOQOL-Bref and their mental health, using the Maslash Burnout Inventory (MBI).

Results

The present study found a Burnout' prevalence of 63,6% (presence of high levels in at least one dimension of Burnout) and 7,4% (presence of high levels on the three dimensions of Burnout) in this population. It was founded a moderate correlation between psychological domain and the emotional exhaustion dimension of the Burnout syndrome (r = - 0,58). Physicians who had high level in anyone of the tree dimension of MBI presented low scores in the domains of the WHOQOLBref indicating association between both variable.

Conclusion

There was a negative correlation between scores in Quality of Life and MBI.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 28 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 21th European Congress of Psychiatry , 2013 , 28-E1209
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2012
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