title: Stress and burnout among multidisciplinary residents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify associations between high-stress and burnout syndrome in multidisciplinary residents from a federal university in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is an analytical, cross-sectional and quantitative study. A socio-demographic questionnaire, the Work Stress Scale and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Health Services Survey (MBI-HSS) were applied to 37 residents between April and June 2011. P-values<0.05 were considered statistically significant.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We verified that 48.65% of the residents experienced high-stress. When associating the MBI-HSS subscales, we verified that 27% of the residents showed some indication of burnout syndrome. There was a statistically significant correlation (p=0.00, r=0.68) between a high-stress and burnout.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  High-stress was confirmed as being a predictor of burnout syndrome among multidisciplinary residents. Therefore, we propose that intervention studies be conducted in order to change such contexts.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. lguido344@gmail.com
authors.forename: Laura de Azevedo
authors.initials: Lde A
authors.lastname: Guido
authors.forename: Carolina Tonini
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Goulart
authors.forename: Rodrigo Marques
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.forename: Luis Felipe Dias
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Lopes
authors.forename: Emanuelli Mancio
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Ferreira
mesh_terms: D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*