Prevalence of Burnout among Workers of a Health Care Center

Abstract

Objective: to determine prevalence of Burnout among workers of a Health Care Center. Methods: observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study. All the workers of the “Dr. Gerardo Varela Mariscal” Health Care Center t-iii, in the sanitary jurisdiction of Tlalpan, Health Services in Mexico City, were included; from August to November, 2014. It was applied Identification card and the Maslash inventory modified in 16 questions, moreover it was made the Pearson coefficient of correlation, a factor anova and t of Student independent samples, the significance level was 0.05 and the statistical spss v. 18 program was used. Results: a total of 53 workers are included. 22.5% showed a high and very high level of burnout for “cynicism”; 20.6% in the same categories for “personal inefficiency” and 24.4% for “exhaustion”. The only correlation with significance found was between “job inefficiency” and “couple relationship” variable (p=0.036), as well as “sense of demand” and “job Burnout” (p=0.012). Conclusions: it is important the prevalence of the burnout syndrome among health workers, as approximately a quarter of the staff personnel studied in this research showed it.