Fatores associados à Síndrome de Burnout em enfermeiras de urgências e emergências obstétricas em instituições públicas de um município baiano

Abstract

Burnout Syndrome (BS) is the reaction to chronic emotional tension generated from direct and excessive contact with other human beings, particularly when they are worried or have problems. Caring requires constant emotional tension, constant attention; Great responsibilities await the professional with every gesture at work. The worker becomes emotionally involved with his clients, becomes exhausted and, at one extreme, gives up and enters Burnout. The objective of this work is to identify the factors associated with Burnout Syndrome in emergency and obstetric emergency nurses in public institutions in a municipality in Bahia in the year 2022. To this end, as methodological procedures, a field study was carried out, with a quantitative approach. cross-sectional, descriptive and exploratory in nature, with the fields of study being Hospital Inácia Pinto dos Santos (HIPS) and Hospital Estadual da Criança (HEC), the main form of meeting spontaneous and referred demand for urgency and obstetric emergencies, carrying out 100% of the obstetrics care through the Unified Health System (SUS). Contracted nurses who provided urgent and emergency obstetric care participated in the research. Collection technique, a questionnaire designed specifically for this study was used. This instrument was composed of three thematic sections, the first encompassed identification and sociodemographic data, the second investigated lifestyle habits and the last section included data on Professional information. Among the main results, it is highlighted that among the professionals who participated in the study, it was possible to identify the prevalence of the three dimensions of BS (EE, DP and RPR), and the factors most associated with this condition were: age, sex, average salary and marital status. From the research developed, it was possible to identify a high level of positivity for BS and its dimensions in the nurses who participated in the research. The predominance of females in the research highlights, once again, the importance of women as professionals. It was possible to observe nurses' lack of knowledge about what BS is and its consequences for health.