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Prevalence of Burnout Syndrome among Resident Doctors

Abstract

Resident doctors are exposed to stressors related to both the education and the professional practice. This research aimed to identify the prevalence of burnout syndrome among the resident doctors of the Hospital das Clínicas of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (HC-UFMG), exploring its association with sociodemographic and occupational aspects. Of the resident doctors, 273 answered a sociodemographic and occupational form and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), and we interviewed 13 of them. We submitted the answers of the questionnaires to statistical analysis, whereas we applied content analysis to answers of interviews. The participants showed high emotional exhaustion (68.1%), moderate or high cynicism (41.7%), and moderate or high professional ineffectiveness (40.6%). We found that 25.64% the resident doctors presented with burnout syndrome. Besides, sociodemographic and occupational variables presented low explanatory power to prevalence of the syndrome. These results strengthen the need to question the working conditions of resident doctors, as well as the role of sociodemographic and occupational variables, religiosity, and the process of organizational socialization in the development of burnout syndrome.

Keywords:
Burnout Syndrome; Medical Residency; University Hospital; Methodological Triangulation; Coping

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