1984 – Burnout Syndrome And Quality Of Life Among Intensivists Physicians Residents In Salvador, Bahia, Brasil

Abstract

Introduction

There are few studies on burnout doctors in Brazil.

Objectives/aims

Describe prevalence of the Burnout syndrome in intensive care physicians of Salvador, and evaluate if there are correlation between aspects of Life Quality and the Burnout Syndrome.

Methods

A cross sectional study assessed the correlation between Life Quality and Burnout Syndrome in a population of 333 Intensive Care Physicians from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. An individual, self-report questionnaire evaluated the Life Quality' domains, using the WHOQOL-Bref and their mental health, using the Maslash Burnout Inventory (MBI).

Results

The present study found a Burnout' prevalence of 63,6% (presence of high levels in at least one dimension of Burnout) and 7,4% (presence of high levels on the three dimensions of Burnout) in this population. It was founded a moderate correlation between psychological domain and the emotional exhaustion dimension of the Burnout syndrome (r = - 0,58). Physicians who had high level in anyone of the tree dimension of MBI presented low scores in the domains of the WHOQOLBref indicating association between both variable.

Conclusion

There was a negative correlation between scores in Quality of Life and MBI.