| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: The term Burnout syndrome refers to a situation that is increasingly common among professionals who provide their services through direct and sustained relationship with people, and is a direct relationship to depression. In this case, we decided to carry out a study of medical residents of the Emergency Medical and Surgical Specialty of the Ministry of Health of the Federal District General Hospital doctors attached Villa.
Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of burnout and its three components, as well as demographic variables that are most closely related, and if the burnout syndrome is a risk factor for depression.
Material and Methods: An observational descriptive cross, taking as a tool for gathering information from a questionnaire and measured variables associated with burnout by Maslach Burnout Inventory, as validated in Spanish, so it was measured the degree depression using the Self-Assessment Survey Scale for Depression, Zung (SDS)
Results: The results show a prevalence of this syndrome in 100% with moderate and high in 80% (of which 47% was moderate and 33% higher, and 20% lower), with regard to depression was found in 29% of respondents. Conclusions: All subjects surveyed have Burnout and 80% had a degree of impairment predominantly moderate or high. Depression was observed more in the attached that residents and an equal relationship between men and women, according to the results observed is considered that Burnout is a risk factor for depression, the greater the anonymity in the individual. | |
