Assessment the Probability of Formation Burnout Syndrome Among Health Care Workers

Abstract

Aim

Study of psychosocial risk factors in the formation of burnout syndrome.

Material and method

Based on a questionnaire developed by WHO experts for the European model of “health management, environment and security in the workplace”, conducted surveys 246 health care workers. Individual attention was paid to health, physical activity and nutrition.

Results

Survey conducted of the medical personnel showed high prevalence among them psychophysical, social and psychological, behavioral symptoms that allows to think of high probability of formation of a syndrome of professional burning out. Part of medical workers who have one complaint in each group of symptoms (psychophysiological, sociological-psychological, behavioral) – 18,7%. Part of HCW with two and more complaints in each group – 39% (Table 1). Prevalence of psychophysiological, sociological and psychological, behavioral symptoms among health care emergency workers is different (Table 2).

Table 1

	City n = 78 (%)	Countryside n = 168 (%)	Chi2	P	Total n = 246
Complaint in each group of symptoms	16 (20.5)	30 (17.9)	0.01	0.963	36 (18.7)
Two complaints in each group of symptoms	32 (41.0)	64 (38.1)	0.01	0.982	96 (39.0)
Three complaints in each group of symptoms	18 (23.1)	26 (15.5)	0.4	0.549	44 (17.9)

Table 2

	City n = 70 (%)	Countryside n = 150 (%)	Chi2	P	Total n = 220
Two and more of psychophysiological spts	26 (37.1)	12 (8)	7.8	0.005	38 (17.3)
Two and more of sociological and psychological spts	8 (11.4)	24 (16)	0.1	0.793	32 (14.5)
Two and more of behavioral spts	10 (14.3)	10 (6.7)	0.7	0.414	20 (9.1)

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.