Frecuencia de síndrome burnout en internos rotativos de medicina que presenten depresión, Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga. Cuenca, 2020.

Abstract

BACKGROUND: depression is an entity of psychiatric and psychological nature, which can appear as a set of symptoms that affect mood, being a main reason for consultation in the psychiatrics’ area; generally, the appearance of these symptoms is related with strong work, physical, psychological and academic demands, which could be a trigger for Burnout Syndrome. GENERAL OBJECTIVE: to determine the frequency of Burnout Syndrome among students of the rotating medical internship who suffer depression at José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital. METHODOLOGY: cross-sectional descriptive study. The universe of the study were the rotating interns of the medical career, who work at José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital, corresponding to the cohort of September 2019. For this study, was applied an interview, a sociodemographic survey, the Hamilton test and the Maslach Burnout Inventory scale validated. Once the data collection was finished, the SPSS Statistics version 18 program was used for the statistical analysis of the results. RESULTS: 63.3% of the inmates are women, 77.2% are aged between 22-25 years, 88.6% live in urban areas and 60.8% come from Cuenca; 94.9% have a workload greater than 72 hours. 81.0% of the inmates have depression and 31.3% of these have Burnout Syndrome; 60.9% have a high level of emotional fatigue, 70.3% have a high level of depersonalization and 46.9% have a low level of personal fulfillment. There is no significant relationship between depression and burnout syndrome (p: 0.164). CONCLUSIONS: 81% of the inmates have depression, while about 30% have Burnout syndrome; however, there is no statistical association between these two.

KEY WORDS: Medical students. Depression. Burnout syndrome.