Teachers in the pandemic: factors and conditions associated with Burnout Syndrome

Ramos, Daniela Karine; Anastácio, Bruna Santana; Silva, Gleice Assunção da; Pires, Leila Urioste Rosso

doi:10.1590/1980-6248-2021-0100EN

Daniela Karine Ramos Corresponding author:Ramos, Daniela K. - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Campus Trindade, Florianópolis, SC, 88040-900, Brasil.

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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil. dadaniela@gmail.com

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Bruna Santana Anastácio

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Prefeitura Municipal de São José, Escola Básica Municipal Vereadora Albertina Krummel Maciel, São José, SC, Brasil.

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Gleice Assunção da Silva

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Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina – IFSC, Departamento de Ensino Pesquisa e Extensão, Lages, SC, Brasil. gleiceprojetos@gmail.com

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Leila Urioste Rosso Pires

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Centro Paula Souza – CPS, Faculdade de Tecnologia, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – PUC-SP, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. leilaurpires@gmail.com

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Responsible editor: Adriana Varani. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7480-4998

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Ramos, Daniela K. - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Campus Trindade, Florianópolis, SC, 88040-900, Brasil.

Categories	Subcategories	Freq.	Examples
Classes	Teacher learning	35	“The pandemic stimulated me to learn about new technologies."
	Challenging aspect	9	“Challenging, it made me understand education through another perspective."
	Lack of feedback	12	“My greatest difficulty is having feedback from the student on my daily work proposal."
	Lack of interest and participation	23	“Students’ participation is much lower than in-person."
	Miss in-person contact	25	“I miss the in-person classes with my students."
Challenge	Adaptation	14	“It was good, but the adaptation had to be very fast. In the beginning, it was more difficult, and in the end, I've been feeling more tired."
	Difficulty	11	“It was difficult to contact the students with no access to technologies and keep them motivated."
	Planning	7	“ I divided the content into more sections so the students could understand better."
Teacher’s devaluing	Lack of support and information	18	“I feel unsupported regarding school. I have no aid, information, or support. The position of the school was like, "you make do."
Teacher’s devaluing	Resources	17	“I made a large investment in a new notebook and a high-quality internet, and I have no adequate place in my house to work."
Diseases	Poor health	9	“Work in the pandemic made me sick, and I had to deal with the costs of medication and, though sick, I kept working."
Emotions	Empathy	14	“It was a moment of empathy but, at the same time, insecurity."
	Frustration	23	“The experience during the pandemic was frustrating from a pedagogical perspective.”
	Impotence and failure	9	“I felt like a failure, incompetent."
	Insecurity	11	“Insecurity about the future of education and, consequently, our future as teachers, which increased in the pandemic."
	Emotional problems	13	“I had many emotional problems during the work days."
	Revolt	8	“ For me, the remote teaching was just a make-believe."
Positive experience	Good relationship	6	“I discovered the importance of a good relationship with my students."
	Overcoming	11	“Work demanded overcoming”
	Calmness	10	“It's been calm, but I prefer in-person classes."
Work overload	Exhaustion	16	“I feel tired and overworked. I have much more work than before."
	Excess	32	“The work overload increased."
	Lack of limits	14	“Much pressure of people, with no day or time limits."
	Drastic change	6	“It was difficult because I had to change overnight the way of working."
	Pressure and demand	10	“Demand from the school” “Much pressure of people, with no day or time limits."

	N	Minimum value	Maximum value	Average	Standard deviation
Hired workload	438	1	6	3.60	1.07
Dedicated workload	438	1	6	4.19	1.49
Number of devices available	438	1	4	2.61	0.73
Number of devices connected to the Internet	438	0	2	1.89	0.32
Conditions to access the devices	438	2	10	7.99	1.78
Digital competence	438	3	22	15.55	3.52
Number of new digital resources learned	438	0	11	3.49	2.24
Work conditions	438	25	63	47.40	6.48
Life quality and health	438	-9	9	-4.98	3.27
MBI	438	6	72	42.44	13.08

		MBI					Life quality and health
		N	Average	Standard Deviation	T	P	Average	Standard deviation	t	p
Sex
	Women	330	43.44	12.01	2.82	0.005	-5.27	3.08	-3.34	0.001
	Men	108	39.38	15.55			-4.08	3.62
Close people with covid
	Yes	384	42.80	13.04	1.56	0.118	-5.24	3.19	-4.54	0.000
	No	54	39.83	13.12			-3.12	3.2
Lost someone to COVID
	Yes	169	42.60	13.07	0.21	0.831	-5.42	3.4	-2.22	0.027
	No	269	42.33	13.09			-4.71	3.15

	MBI					Life quality and health
	N	Average	Standard deviation	Z	p	Average	Standard deviation	Z	p
Knowledge area
Human sciences	162	42.39	1.50	1.04	0.393	-4.76	0.27	1.54	0.174
Biological and Health sciences	47	43.36	1.72			-5.48	0.42
Linguistics, Languages, and Arts	107	44.23	1.09			-5.34	0.30
Exact and Earth Sciences	76	40.68	1.68			-5.21	0.37
Engineering degrees	21	41.80	3.13			-4.23	0.69
Applied Social Sciences	25	39.20	2.83			-3.84	0.59

Work levels
Childhood Education	42	40.52	1.44	7.54	0.000	-5.16	0.42	5.09	0.001
Elementary School	80	45.47	1.28			-5.98	0.28
Middle School	75	46.40	1.37			-5.64	0.26
Vocational and high school	142	42.83	1.14			-4.63	0.30
Higher Education	96	37.06	1.40			-4.08	0.34

	2	3	4	5	6	7
1. Age	0.05	-0.17**	-0.20	0.27	0.64	-0.16**
2. Conditions to access devices		0.34**	-0.11*	0.15**	0.24**	-0.35**
3. Digital competence			-0.34**	-0.05	0.19**	-0.22**
4. Number of resources learned				0.17**	-0.11**	0.09
5. Work conditions					-0.06	-0.02
6. Life quality and health						-0.54**

7. MBI

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