Prevalencia y subdiagnóstico del síndrome de burn out en servicios criticos en el contexto de la pandemia COVID-19
Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Introduction: The importance of knowing the impact of work on people's health has increased after the COVID-19 pandemic. Burn Out (BO) syndrome arises from the tension emerging from the conflictive interaction between the worker and his or her employment. The objective was to describe the prevalence and frequency of diagnosis of BO in the health human resources of critical services of the Bahía Blanca Municipal Hospital in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional study. The study population was the medical and nursing staff of the Intensive Care (IT), Emergency Medicine (SMU) and Clinic services who worked with COVID-19 during 2021. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) questionnaire was used and complementary closed questions to identify, among these cases, those that were diagnosed and treated by the institution.Results: Of the 219 workers, 55.3% (121/219) were nurses. In the SMU, 25% (24/96) of respondents had BO, followed by 20.4% (11/54) in Clinic and 8.7% (6/69) in IT (p value=0.004). Only 5.5% (12/219) of the total were diagnosed with BO by the institution and of this group, two people (0.9%) had previously consulted for characteristic symptoms.Discussion: A high prevalence of BO and a marked underdiagnosis were evident at the institutional level during the pandemic. Although the IT Service had the highest demand for attention, it was the one that presented the lowest BO values in relation to other services.
Authors: Lucas Gonzalo Duran, Pamela Soledad Vega, Nicolle Stefanía Davit Baridón, Luciana Mattei, Rocío Belén Cappella, Melina Paula Scherñuk Schroh, Geronimo Blint, Eugenio Emmanuel Uriarte, María Montserrat Cerini, Fiorella Melina Toracchio, Jackson José Mejía Caraballo, Candela Giuffre, Julieta Pereyra Huertas, Maria Eugenia Esandi
Institution: Universidad Nacional del Sur
Language: English
Subfield: Occupational Therapy
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4402961949