SÍNDROME DEL DESGASTE EN LOS MÉDICOS RESIDENTES DE URGENCIAS DEL INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Since the American Freudenberguer mentioned in 1974 the burnout term, this syndrome is considerate a decisive factor of the professional life and many authors described this pathology along the time, The sanitary personal frequently deal with life and death situations and this work can be physically and emotionally taxing and the stress derived from this context of work implies the development of healt problems like a burnout. OBJECTIVE: To determine the presence of any of the burnout dimensions in the medicals emergency residents of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (I.P.N.) in the 4 medicals institutions (I.M.S.S., I.S.S.S.T.E., S.S.A. and S.S.G.D.F.) in Mexico City. METHODS: A transversal and descriptive study was carried out on a sample of 183 medicals emergency residents of the Escuela Superior de Medicina of the I.P.N. of the all academic step. The Maslach Burn Inventory questionary were used to measure the Burnout degree and other questions to sociodemographycs characteristics. RESULTS: 57.47% of the sample was made up of men by 42.52% women. 30.45% of the sample was made up of R1, 39.08% R2, by 30.45% R3. 59.7% was made up of IMSS, 16.0% of ISSSTE, 15.5% of SSA by 8.6% of SSGDF. 20.68% was made up be married. CONCLUSIONS: The principal affected to Burnout Syndrome is a medical resident of 2nd step, men or woman, principally of the IMSS´s hospitals.