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ARAYAGO, Robelsy; GONZALEZ, Álvaro; LIMONGI, María  y  GUEVARA, Harold. Burnout syndrome in residents and anesthesiologists. Salus [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.1, pp.13-21. ISSN 1316-7138.

Burnout syndrome (BS) is a kind of occupational stress that is observed in health professionals who maintain direct and constant contact with others. The aim of the study wasdetermine the prevalence of Burnout syndrome in residents and medical service specialists of anesthesiology at the City Hospital “Dr. Enrique Tejera”, period January-July 2015; distribuit them according to age, office, workplace, working years; also the emotional situation as emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal accomplishment was determined, besides the level of work stress of them was diagnosed. It was made a descriptive, with field design and transversal research, whose sample consisted of the entire population, 64 medical specialists and residents, after signing an informed consent. The Maslach Burnout Inventory questionnaire was used to investigate the presence of BS. The results showed the presence of BS in 64.1% of the surveyed physicians, being higher in residents with 73.3%, there was predominance of female 62.5%; in terms of emotional exhaustion 34.4 %, depersonalization 39.1% and lack of personal fulfillment 81.2%. It was concluded that BS is prevalent in the three quarters of doctors, who also had 32 years or less, six out of ten were women and just over half were resident physicians, demonstrating the need for better working conditions of anesthesiology service.

Palabras clave : Burnout syndrome; anesthesiologist physicians.

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