title: [Burnout syndrome of health workers in an assisted residence for the elderly].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to estimate the prevalence of Burnout Syndrome and the sleep patterns alterations experienced by health workers who work in an Assisted Residence for the Elderly.
  
  
  METHODS
  descriptive and cross-sectional research using the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Sleepiness Epworth scales in a self questionnaire that was aimed to 150 employees at the institution. We used descriptive and inferential statistics with a 95% confidence interval. The relationship between categorical variables was carried out using the non-parametric Mann-Whitney test.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  response rate of 92% (138) on the total respondents (150). The burnout prevalence rate is located at 21.7% with a high percentage of workers with low personal fulfillment (64.1%). There is also a slight tendency to suffer from daytime sleepiness in general. It is worth highlighting musculoskeletal problems as the main physiological conditions in relation to the type of work (70.3%), being coffee as the most consumed substance of those polled. High level prevalence of burnout syndrome in the population studied, especially among the nursing staff and the need to develop interventions to reduce them.
authors.affiliation: angelsan15@gmail.com
authors.forename: Angel Santiago
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: García Sánchez
authors.forename: Estrella del Carmen
authors.initials: Edel C
authors.lastname: Espinosa Muñoz
authors.forename: María del Carmen
authors.initials: Mdel C
authors.lastname: Jiménez Jiménez
authors.forename: Ma Belén
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: González Galán
authors.forename: Paloma María
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Soto Ayuso
authors.forename: Ana María Prado
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Barbero
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D040561:Assisted Living Facilities; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D020920:Dyssomnias / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel; D006707:Homes for the Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D013577:Syndrome; D055815:Young Adult