A saúde dos médicos de uma instituição de ensino superior no sul do Brasil: as multidimensões da Síndrome de Bournout

Abstract

The main goal of this research was to verify the sociodemographic characteristics, the characteristics of labor, psychosocial characteristics and the prevalence of the Burnout Syndrome (Maslach Burnout Inventory - MBI) on doctors from a southern teaching institution of Brazil. The sample was composed by 295 doctors, where the most part were women (57,3%), with children (78,5), with a partner (77,2) and with more than 10 years of profession (78,5). It was observed that 6,4% of those doctors presented a diagnosis of Burnout Syndrome and the identified predictors are: age, male, no children, less than 20 years of profession, more than 3 jobs insertion, workload of more than 61 hours per week, not conciliate family life and work and not having patient recognition. Although, on this research the rate of people with the Syndrome is low, it is necessary to seek more knowledge about the occupational stress experienced by the doctors and the consequences that can generate to the quality of care.