Abstract

CASTANEDA AGUILERA, Enrique  and  GARCIA DE ALBA GARCIA, Javier Eduardo. Prevalence of the syndrome of professional exhaustion (burnout) in mexican dentists of the education sector and private. Med. segur. trab. [online]. 2012, vol.58, n.228, pp.246-260. ISSN 1989-7790.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0465-546X2012000300009.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of burnout (burnout) in dental education and private sector. Material and methods: Methods: Observational, descriptive and cross through the dental staff census metropolitan area of Guadalajara, Mexico at the University of Guadalajara and those in private practice, attended by 135 of the mapplying to the maform of identification and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey in a self-administered. Descriptive statistics and inferential analyzes were performed using SPSS15.0 support and Epi-infoV6.1. Results: We achieved 90.0 % response. Was detected a frequency of burnout (burnout) in 50.3 % of them. There were significant differences in function to be under 40 years of age. Negative correlation was observed between emotional exhaustion and depersonalization subscales and positive relationship between lacks of personal accomplishment at work. Conclusions: The syndrome of burnout (burnout) is frequent (50.3 %) for dentists, the main risk factors: work in private practice, being female, under 40 years old without regular partner and with more than 15 years with partner, partner not working, no children, be a specialist, with less than 10 years of work and the current job more than 10 years work in the morning shift, permanent recruitment and have other work. Involvement of the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization behaves like syndrome. The average levels of the subscales are generally near normal.We found a negative correlation between emotional exhaustion and depersonalization subscales and positive relationship between lacks of personal fulfillment in working with the presence of the syndrome. It is necessary to establish preventive or intervention at the individual, social or organizational to reduce the prevalence found.

Keywords : Dentists; burnout; emotional exhaustion; depersonalization; lack of personal accomplishment.

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