Burnout Syndrome among nursing graduates in a university center inside Pernambuco

Abstract

Objective: To identify the occurrence of Burnout Syndrome in nursing students at a University Center in the countryside of Pernambuco. Methods: The place where the research was carried out was at the University Center in the interior of Pernambuco, in the data analysis, descriptive statistics were used, through absolute and percentage distributions. Results: The final sample consisted of 184 nursing students. For the identification of the syndrome, the questionnaire validated to the Maslach Burnout scale for students was used. We used the Grunfeld criterion to indicate Syndrome to indicate Burnout when the interviewee has a high level of Emotional Exhaustion or a high level of depersonalization or a low level of personal professional achievement. The results showed that of the 184 undergraduates, 177 were identified with the syndrome. In the data analysis, descriptive statistics was used, through absolute and percentage distributions. The program used to enter data and obtain statistical calculations was the program StatisticalPackage for the Social Sciences (SPSS) in version 15. Conclusion: It is concluded that due to the demand that is required from these graduates, the dimensions presented at high levels, signaling the need for interventions, favoring new teaching proposals, improving the quality and engagement of learning.