Quality of life and stress related to word between Primary Health Care professionals

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Cristiano José Mendes
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Lino, Carolina Matteussi, Escarabeli, Renata Pereira Munhoz, Cruz, Luciene das Virgens, Pires, Cristiane, Oyama, Silvia Maria Ribeiro, Mota, Marília Jesus Batista de Brito
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Qualidade de Vida
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/rbqv/article/view/12128
• topic: Saúde Coletiva; Esgotamento psicológico; Profissionais da saúde; Atenção primária à saúde.; Burnout psychological; Health professionals; Primary health care.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the prevalence and factors associated with Burnout Syndrome and quality of life at work of Primary Health Care professionals.METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study, conducted with 520 professionals from health units in a city in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The Quality of Life at Work was assessed based on the “Quality of Working Life Questionnaire” and the Burnout Syndrome based on the “Maslach Burnout Inventary”. Descriptive and bivariate analyzes of the dependent and independent variables were performed, followed by logistic regression with the variables that presented p-value <0.20. A significance level of 5% was adopted.RESULTS: Most professionals were female, nursing assistants / technicians, with a workload of 40 hours per week. As for the Burnout Syndrome, 57.7% of the professionals were exhausted and 49.2% considered their overall Quality of Life at Work to be low. An association was identified between function, health perception, and Quality of Life at Work.CONCLUSIONS: There was a prevalence of Burnout Syndrome and it was high, especially among administrative and medical functions. Professional Burnout was associated with function, health perception and Quality of Life at Work.