Burnout syndrome among undergraduate nursing students at a public university

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: to investigate the burnout syndrome and its relationship with demographic and academic variables among undergraduate nursing students at a public university in Southern Brazil. METHOD: a quantitative study with 168 students, by applying an adaptation of the Maslach Burnout Inventory - Student Survey, validated for this study. We used descriptive and variance analysis of the data analysis. RESULTS: we found that students do not have the burnout syndrome, manifesting high average scores in Emotional Exhaustion, low in Disbelief and high in Professional Effectiveness; that younger students who perform leisure activities have greater Professional Effectiveness, unlike students in early grades with no extracurricular activities; combining work and studies negatively influenced only the Professional Effectiveness factor, while the intention of giving up influenced negatively Disbelief and Professional Effectiveness factors. CONCLUSION: the situations that lead students to Emotional Exhaustion need to be recognized, considering the specificity of their study environments.

Estresse em estudantes de enfermagem: estudo sobre vulnerabilidades sociodemográficas e acadêmicas

“…The administration of the instrument evidenced that students did not present burnout syndrome, however, there were high manifestations of emotional exhaustion, low in disbelief in studies, and high in professional effectiveness. (23) The dedication required by health care courses and the assessment systems contribute to the occurrence of stress from the beginning. (10) New requirements, skills and competencies appear and increase in each period of the course, need to be developed and, consequently, may be one of the factors that demonstrate the differences presented between the first year and the others.…”

Occupational Burnout Syndrome in the nursing context: an integrative literature review

“…Finally, 170 records were selected from this initial analysis to go through a more rigorous selection process (46) (Figure 1). According to the process shown in Figure 1, only 106 articles qualified for the analysis (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20) . The main publication language of these manuscripts was English (64 articles), followed by articles in Portuguese and Spanish (25 and 17, respectively …”

“…Investigations on OBS among students are more frequent than among professors (4)(5)8,26,47,65,80,107) , again, perhaps due to operational problems. These studies arise from the expansion of the OBS study field and the broadening of the Burnout concept, since the depersonalization factor has come to be denominated disbelief (112) .…”

“…Depersonalization is characterized as a loss of compassion towards others. Finally, PA relates to negative evaluations of the individual regarding their performance at work and their future in that profession (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15) . Although the three-dimensional model is the most accepted and used for measuring the syndrome, there are controversies regarding this three-dimensional structure.…”

Relación entre el Bienestar Académico de Estudiantes de Kinesiología de una Universidad Tradicional de Chile y su Percepción del Ambiente Educacional

“…Es un síndrome negativo integrado por tres dimensiones: a) agotamiento emocional, que se caracteriza por falta o carencia de energía, de entusiasmo y un sentimiento de falta de recursos; b) despersonalización-cinismo, que se caracteriza por una respuesta impersonal, fría y cínica hacia los beneficiarios de los servicios o hacia los estudios; c) falta de realización personal-eficacia profesional, conducta evidenciada por una tendencia del sujeto a autoevaluarse en forma negativa, experimentando sentimiento de incompetencia y fracaso (Maslach y Jackson, 1986). Aunque este síndrome se describió en profesionales, también puede afectar a otras ocupaciones, como los estudiantes de los distintos niveles educativos, siendo los universitarios quienes estarían más expuestos a sufrir Burnout Académico (Backovic et al, 2012;Mazurkiewicz et al, 2012;Tomaschewski-Barlem et al, 2014). Caballero et al (2010) consideran que vale la pena distinguir las investigaciones de este síndrome en alumnos de medicina y enfermería con los de otras carreras, dado que en esta población se retorna al concepto original de Burnout, el cual se visualiza en la relación estudiante-paciente.…”