title: Intensive care unit physicians: socio-demographic profile, working conditions and factors associated with burnout syndrome.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Burnout syndrome is a response to prolonged occupational stress that involves three main dimensions: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment. The aim of this study was to describe socio-demographic characteristics of intensive care unit physicians and evaluate factors associated to the presence of Burnout syndrome in this population.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study was performed to evaluate physicians who have worked in intensive care units from the city of Salvador (Bahia - Brazil) with a minimum weekly workload of 12-hour. An anonymous self-reported questionnaire was used and it was divided into two parts: socio-demographic characteristics and evaluation of Burnout syndrome through Maslach Burnout Inventory.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We studied 297 physicians and most of them were male (70%). The mean age and time of graduation were, respectively, 34.2 and 9 years. High levels of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment were found in respectively, 47.5%, 24.6% and 28.3%. The prevalence of Burnout syndrome, considered as high level in at least one dimension, was of 63.3%. This prevalence was statistically lower in physicians specialized on intensive care, those with more than nine years of graduation and those who intend to continue working in intensive care units for more than 10 years. The prevalence was higher in the doctors with more than 24-hours of uninterrupted intensive care work per week.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Burnout syndrome was common among intensive care physicians and it was more frequent in the youngest doctors, with higher workload and without specialization on intensive care.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Santa Izabel, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Dalton de Souza
authors.initials: Dde S
authors.lastname: Barros
authors.affiliation: Universidade Salvador, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Márcia Oliveira Staffa
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Tironi
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Saúde, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Carlito Lopes
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Nascimento Sobrinho
authors.affiliation: Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Flávia Serra
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Neves
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Almir Galvão Vieira
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Bitencourt
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Alessandro de Moura
authors.initials: Ade M
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Ygor Gomes de
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Marcelo Santos
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Teles
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Ana Isabela Ramos
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Feitosa
authors.affiliation: Universidade Salvador, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Igor Carlos Cunha
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Mota
authors.affiliation: Universidade Salvador, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Juliana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: França
authors.affiliation: Universidade Salvador, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Lorena Guimarães
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Borges
authors.affiliation: Universidade Salvador, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Manuela Barreto de Jesus
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Lordão
authors.affiliation: Universidade Salvador, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Maria Valverde
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Trindade
authors.affiliation: Universidade Salvador, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Mônica Bastos Trindade
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.affiliation: Hospital Santa Izabel, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Edson Silva
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Marques Filho
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brasil.
authors.forename: Eduardo José Farias Borges Dos
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Reis