[Burnout in Nursing Professionals Performing Overtime Workdays in Emergency and Critical Care Departments. Spain].
OBJECTIVE
Burnout syndrome is a disorder that seriously affects people who suffer it, the institutions in which they work and the quality of healthcare. It is of great interest to advance in burnout research for its possible prevention. The aim of this work was to study the levels of burnout syndrome in nurses of emergency department with overtime workdays and to know the relationship between burnout and personality characteristics.


METHODS
Multicenter cross-sectional study with a sample of 1225 emergency nurses from the Andalusian Health Service. Demographic, social and occupational variables were recorded. Burnout was assessed with Maslach Burnout Inventory and personality factors with NEO-Five Factor Inventory. Descriptive analysis of the variables, independent means hypothesis contrast and bayesian analysis were done.


RESULTS
44.1% of nurses who perform overtime workdays have high burnout versus a 38% for those without such overload. These differences have been also found in burnout dimensions, especially in emotional exhaustion (15.3% versus 10.8%) and depersonalization (17.9% versus 11.8%).


CONCLUSIONS
Overtime workdays performed by emergency nurses seems to have a negative on them and it could also influence the development of burnout syndrome.
Universidad de Granada.gacf@ugr.es.
Guillermo Arturo
GA
Cañadas-De la Fuente
Servicio Andaluz de Salud.
Luis
L
Albendín-García
Universidad de Granada and Centro de Investigación, Mente, Cerebro y Comportamiento (CIMCYC).
Emilia Inmaculada
EI
de la Fuente
Universidad de Granada.
Concepción
C
San Luis
Universidad de Granada.
José Luis
JL
Gómez-Urquiza
Universidad de Granada.
Gustavo Raúl
GR
Cañadas
D000328:Adult; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D064648:Critical Care Nursing; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D016529:Emergency Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012307:Risk Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D014940:Work Schedule Tolerance / Q000523:psychology*
Burnout, proffesional; Emergencies; Emergency nursing; Nursing; Occupational heatlh; Personality; Shift work; Spain; Work hours