Burnout Syndrome in Nursing Professionals in Punta Arenas, Chile

Abstract

Objective: to identify the prevalence of burnout syndrome in nursing professionals in Punta Arenas, Chile. Method: quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional research in a sample of nursing professionals from Punta Arenas, Chile. Data were collected between January and March 2019, using the Maslach Burnout Inventory and a sociodemographic questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were applied in the data analysis. Results: 163 individuals participated in the study. 18% of the sample suffered from burnout syndrome, who were female young adults, i.e. between 20 and 40 years of age, and who worked in direct user care. Conclusion: the prevalence of burnout in the as-yet-unexplored place of study and in different work scenarios, such as education, management, and hospital-based and primary health care, confirms the implications of this study for occupational health in this population. This knowledge offers recent evidence to ground the implementation of occupational health promotion policies and strategies in Chilean nursing professionals.

Professional burnout of nursing team working to fight the new coronavirus pandemic

“…Burnout prevalence data ranged from 6.7% to 16.5% in the four hospitals, when considering the triad that characterizes the Burnout Syndrome. These findings are inferior to the results found in studies conducted exclusively in intensive care settings carried out in Brazil -(53.6%) (15) and (34.3%) (13) -as well as in Iran (25.54) (17) , as well as a study carried out in Brazil (18.3%) (18) with primary health care workers and in Chile (18%) (19) with nursing, assistance, management, teaching and research professionals. However, our data corroborate the findings of two surveys carried out in Brazil, one in a university hospital in the south of the country, with 393 nursing professionals from critical and non-critical units, which found a prevalence of 10.4% of workers with burnout (20) and another in perioperative care units with a prevalence of 10.3% (21) , thus showing that the percentages found in this study did not differ from the burnout prevalence values in the pre-pandemic scenario.…”

Association between Moral Distress and Burnout Syndrome in university-hospital nurses

“…As reported in the literature, regarding nurses working in hospitals and primary care in Punta Arenas, almost half of these health professionals had low or medium levels of professional achievement 33 . In a study, it was possible to observe that professional accomplishment negatively influences MD, showing that the higher the professional achievement, the lower the MD 34 .…”

Desgaste profesional en enfermeras durante la COVID-19, Hospital de segundo nivel en Ecuador

“…Queda claro que el SB con los puntajes obtenidos de las encuestas se lo encasilla como moderado, situación que es afín con los varios estudios (Rendón et al, 2020;Chen et al, 2021) y se anteponen a los resultados planteados en un meta-análisis realizado por Borges et al, (2021) Palacios et al, (2020. Por otro lado, en Brasil (Salviato & Vasconcelos, 2021) y Chile (Gutiérrez et al, 2020) y se han reportado cifras de burnout del 12% y 18% entre profesionales de enfermería que tenían de 20 a 40 años.…”