Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the prevalence of Burnout syndrome (BS) and dimensions – emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DE) and low professional accomplishment (LPA) - among intensive care professionals and to identify their associations with individual, organizational and occupational variables. Methods: Analytical study among intensive care of university hospital in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais. It was used for data collection Maslach Burnout Inventory, Brazil Economic Classification Criterion and questionnaire “individual, occupational and organizational variables”. Results: The prevalence of SB and dimensions (EE-DE-LPA) were respectively 34,0%, 16,9%, 19,4% and 17,9%. By multivariate analysis reported a higher chance of developing SB between men (OR:12.46) to the women; people who identify work as “sometimes / often / always” stressful (OR:48,26) those that identify as “never/almost never” stressful, and people who “do not agree nor disagree/partly agree/strongly agree” that they would choose another profession with the same pay (OR:34,50), to those who “disagree completely/partly” in the selection of another profession. Higher chance of developing EE: between “unmarried/divorced /separated” (OR: 0,07) to the married; between those who have “poor/fair” motivation to work (OR:60,70) to those whose motivation is “good/very good/excellent”; and among those who realize that “sometimes/often/always” people are treated unequally (OR:27,04), to those who realize that “never/almost never” there is unequal treatment. Higher chance of developing DE: among those who “never consumed alcoholic beverages” (OR:0,07) to those who “consume/do not consume anymore”, and among those with “poor/fair” professional expectation (OR:6,09), those with “good/very good/excellent” expectation. Conclusion: The recorded prevalences are alarming, being that SB and dimension were associated to individual and occupational variables and EE was associated with the individual, occupational and organizational variables.
