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- Title
Burnout and Stress Among Nurses in a University Tertiary Hospital.
- Authors
Lorenz, Vera Regina; Benatti, Maria Cecilia Cardoso; Sabino, Marcos Oliveira
- Abstract
This cross-sectional, analytical and correlational study investigated the existence of Burnout based on a sample of 149 nurses of a university tertiary hospital from October to December 2008 and correlate Burnout with Stressors in the hospital work environment. The Maslach Burnout Inventory, the Nurses' Stress Inventory and a questionnaire to characterize the subjects were applied. The results indicated the presence of Burnout in 7.3% of nurses (quartile) and 10.22% (tercile), and also a correlation among the inventories' domains. Vulnerability to this type of illness among nurses was increased by stress experienced in the work environment.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; PSYCHOLOGY of nurses; ACADEMIC medical centers; ANALYSIS of variance; PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout; COMPUTER software; STATISTICAL correlation; DEPERSONALIZATION; HOSPITAL personnel; INDUSTRIAL hygiene; JOB stress; RESEARCH; STATISTICAL sampling; SCALE analysis (Psychology); WORK environment; DATA analysis; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2010, Vol 18, Issue 6, p1084
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0104-11692010000600007