The speech therapist gets sick: Burnout syndrome and hospital speech therapy – a review

The Burnout Syndrome is a chronic adaptive disorder that affects a wide range of professionals, especially health care, such as speech therapists. Characterized aspects among others, by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and low personal accomplishment. This study aimed to verify, in the scientific literature, the occurrence of burnout syndrome in audiologists who work in hospitals. The methodological procedures used were national and international papers in the last10 years, raised in electronic data bases indexed with the following keywords: Speech and Burnout, burnout and hospitals. Articles were identified only on the Burnout Syndrome and health professionals and noted that there is a dearth of information on the relationship Burnout Syndrome and Speech Therapy/Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences. This insufficient production techniques related to the topic at hand is even greater when it is targeted to speech therapist who work in hospitals.

Burnout, Professional; Speech Therapy; Hospital Units