[Personality traits and burnout in family doctors].
OBJECTIVE
With this research we try to study personality traits that could be associated with high punctuation at burnout scales (Maslach Burnout Inventory) in primary care physicians.


METHODS
Observational, descriptive, transversal.


METHODS
93 primary care centres in Barcelona-city and the northern province's region: Vallès Oriental, Vallès Occidental, Maresme, Osona, Bages and Berguedà (centre sanitary region).


METHODS
Individual or collective direct interview to 528 primary care physicians. Three questionnaires were administrated: a sociodemographic item one, the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), and the Cattell personality test 16-PF.


RESULTS
The 40% of the interviewed physicians had some burnout symptoms without any difference between sexes. 12.4% of these showed very high burnout levels. Those subjects with burnout criteria punctuated different at stability, tension and vigilance traits and anxiety dimension.


CONCLUSIONS
Some personality traits like low stability, the tension and the anxiety are associated with high punctuation of burnout.
Cebrià
J
J
Grupo Comunicación y Salud, CAP Sant Miquel, Granollers, Barcelona, Spain.
Segura
J
J
Corbella
S
S
Sos
P
P
Comas
O
O
García
M
M
Rodríguez
C
C
Pardo
M J
MJ
Pérez
J
J
D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000523:psychology*