Objectives:

Burnout is common among health professionals, an important problem of exhaustion and professional angst, that can severely affect the mental state, health, and the quality of personnel-patient care. Nonetheless, only a few studies have researched the improvement in the state of exhaustion of the professionals in the framework of a prevention and systematic reduction therapy for burnout, based on Virtual Reality (VR) and neural feedback. The objective of this study was to evaluate the level of exhaustion and the improvements obtained in health care workers in the context of pandemic for SarsCov 2, product of the application of relaxation therapy based on VR assisted by Neurofeedback.

Material and Method:

Transversal study, in a public hospital in the city of Santiago de Chile. Maslach Burnout Inventory was used to evaluate burnout in health professionals and a therapy was applied to facilitate the learning of breathing techniques and relaxation utilizing VR and neural feedback.

Results:

Out of 50 health care workers 4 were selected for the present study of case report, all obtaining a high level of burnout.

Conclusion:

The health professionals that take care of patients in the framework of the pandemic for COVID19 experimented high levels of burnout. In our study it was observed an improvement in the parameters of improvement in response to neural therapy.

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