Síndrome de burnout na equipe de enfermagem em um hospital no interior do Maranhão

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The expression Burnout Syndrome ( derives from the English term “to burn out which in Portuguese means “to burn yourself, to consume yourself BS can occur in any professional class, however, health professionals such as the nursing team have a strong tendency to develop it, since they deal with situations of great tension, stress and anxiety on a daily basis. OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalenc e and risk factors of Bournout Syndrome in the nursing staff at Hospital Municipal de Paraibano, MaranhMaranhão. METHODOLOGY: This is a descriptive, analytical and exploratory study with a quantitative approach. The study had as participants the professionals of the nursing team of a municipal hospital located in Paraibano, State of MaranhMaranhão, which was the scenario of the research. This small health institution has 35 professionals in the nursing team, 9 nurses and 26 technicians. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: The samp le resulting from this research consisted of 35 professionals, predominantly Nursing Technicians ( female ( with a mean age between 21 and 41 years (68.58 practitioners of Catholicism ( As for the professionals' training time, mo st had graduated 5 to 10 years ( and had been in the profession for 1 to 5 years ( Most of the employment ties were public servants ( Regarding the training or lectures received and experienced by these professionals about BS, ( of the participants stated that they had never had such an experience. This study observed that, predominantly, the participants of this research were female, which is also observed in the available literature, such as the data produced by researchers who investigated BS and observed nursing workers in the context of Brazil and Spain, where 89.47% of professionals in this category were women. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: Through this research, it was possible to observe that the BS in the nursing team working in a hospital in Paraibano, 68.58% of the participants indicated that they were in the initial phase of the BS, being of these, most of them, 82 of the participants are female 82.86%. It was also possible to identify that according to the time of professi onal practice, those who work in the function with 1 to 5 years of work are the professionals with the greatest propensity to develop BS in the initial phase.