title: [The correlation between personality characteristics and burnout syndrome in emergency ambulance workers].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The work in Emergency Medical Ambulance Service is one of the professions, which is accompanied by high psychological and emotional stress. The aim was to determine the risk of professional burnout syndrome of Emergency Medical Ambulance Service staff and the relationship between burnout syndrome and personality.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ninety-seven doctors (57 women and 40 men, aged 37.0±12.21) of Emergency Medical Ambulance Service were interviewed using the MBI-GS questionnaire and the Freiburg personality questionnaire (FPI). Correlation and regression analysis were used.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nine (11.5%) of respondents had a risk of burnout syndrome and 28 (35.9%) had some symptoms. In the group, aged 45 years and older, the risk of burnout syndrome was not identified. The staff of Emergency Medical Ambulance Service is characterized by stable personality features. It is necessary to identify the prevalence of burnout syndrome and also to identity the causes for its prevention and development of measures on the increase of personal stress resilience.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Occupational Medicine, Medical Faculty, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bergmueller
authors.affiliation: Kharkiv National Medical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Zavgorodnii
authors.affiliation: Zukovsky National Aerospace University 'Kharkiv Aviation Institute', Ukraine.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zavgorodnia
authors.affiliation: Kharkiv National Medical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kapustnik
authors.affiliation: Institute of Occupational Medicine, Medical Faculty, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Boeckelmann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000552:Ambulances; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D040821:Human Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013577:Syndrome; D014455:Ukraine; D000078329:Workforce