J. Boggiano, R. Miret, D. Maggio, A. Bantar,
I. Perdomo, M. Medina, M. Lavalle, E. Moya, N. Bravo, H. Macazana Trucios. Interamerican Research Group of Nursing and Health
Background:
Burnout Syndrome is claimed to be the most probable cause of the lack of
motivation suffered by professional cardiovascular nursing nowadays. This
suggests that the syndrome may be linked to the high levels of absrnce from
work among this professional group. The study aims to provide a number of
descriptions of the universal epidemiological variables
that would allow
us to draw up a risk profile for this profession.
Material and
method: We studied a random sample of 307 professionals in which we applied the
Burnout Syndrome measurement instrument (Maslach Burnout Inventory) which was
self-administered. Descriptive statistics were gathered with a comparison of
average values for socio-demographic variables (P0.05) using Epiinfo V.60.
Results: We obtained 87.76% responses compared with 12.23% losses. This sample
gave us a 95% reliability level with a 5% error margin. We obtained significant
differences in line with sex, age, marital status, length of service in the
workplace, number of workers, place of work, number of patients under their
responsibility, weekly working hours, patient interaction time. The Burnout
average was 47.16 “ 7.93, with the highest proportions corresponding to
emotional fatigue and lack of self-fulfilment.
Conclusions: The
epidemiological risk profile obtained would be as follows: a female, over 40
years old, with no stable partner, with more than 10 years service in the
profession and more than 5 at that particular workplace, working in a
specialised department, with more than 3 patients under her responsibility,
devoting more than 80% of the working day to these patients and with a working
week of 36–48 hours
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