Burnout syndrome: existence of burnout in the health sector
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https://doi.org/10.18041/1794-5232/cultrua.2020v17n1.7204Keywords:
Burnout, Exhaustion, Work stress, Professional exhaustion, Emotional exhaustion, Working conditionsAbstract
In times during which our work life occupies a majority of our time where at the very least we spend a third of the day working or developing skills related to our jobs, we seek to be more productive, efficient, and why not admit, competitive, in personal and professional manners; this is how inevitably the side effects present themselves, whether manifesting physically and/or psychologically. Due to this we have decided to share a bit about an illness that has become more common in the working population and gains strength every day. An illness which has since the day it was recognized, obtained several names such as professional attrition syndrome, emotional overdose symptom, burned head syndrome, work burnout, burnout syndrome or work fatigue syndrome or any other synonym for exhaustion and mental fatigue: Burnout Syndrome.
It is important to understand what this syndrome consists of, both for employers/companies and employees who may be affected by it; the former affected due to an increase in absenteeism that translates into a large financial cost due to lost labor and the latter due to a sensation of unhappiness with what used to generate motivation and lack of interest in work, which results in low productivity in addition to physical manifestations such as headaches, fatigue, irritability, etc. Understanding this and taking into account the above, these workers are the ones who changed from one extreme to the other progressively.
Burnout Syndrome is a modern illness that affects individuals in the mental plane, that is to say, a psychological risk for employees and for that reason, just like other occupational risks that are found in the workplace, it should be treated with awareness and prevention strategies in addition to intervention and treatment for affected employees.
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