Scores and Risk Factors Associated with Burnout Among Professionals of Child and Adolescent Health Care

Background: In recent dentistry scientific research, it has been observed that worker ́s mental health has been an object of investigation. Due to several implication both in functional performance and quality of life affiliates by some people with this disorder. This paper reports the prevalence and risk associated with burnout syndrome (BS) in children and adolescent’s health care professionals. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study with descriptive and analytical statistics (based on margin of error 5.0%). The study area includes the city of Campina Grande, Paraiba State, Northeastern Brazilian. The instruments for data collection were interview with structured questionnaires The Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS) and a demographic questionnaire were used (n=87). For data analysis we used Student’s t-test and ANOVA. Results: The final sample was composed of 63 professionals (72.4 % of the universe). According to the data, 90.5 % of participants were female, mean age 41 years ± 12.33. The prevalence of scores related to BS occurred in 49.2% of investigated; 46.0% in the initial phase for this disease and 3.2% with Burnout installed. These patients presented predominantly low level of emotional exhaustion (57.1%) and moderate levels of depersonalization. All had a high professional achievement. Variables, marital status and family incomes were positively associated with depersonalization. Conclusion: Approximately half of professionals of health care for children and adolescents reported symptoms related to BS scores, making necessary a more focused approach to the diagnosis and intervention methods to be adopted for the target population discriminated.

and Low or Professional Realization (LPR) [1]. Among the factors characterized as occupational stressors are reported: long working hours (overload), low qualification, lack of professional recognition and exposure to risks [2]. Interpersonal difficulties, lack of autonomy, pressure for responsibility, type of bond or nature of activities and work instability, as well as conflicts between the family and the family [3]. Sociodemographic and occupational factors for the development of Burnout can be linked to three different types of behavior: "frenetic" that encompasses involved and ambitious subjects, who sacrifice their activities and personal life for the jobs; "underchallenged", indifferent, bored workers, who cannot find personal development in their actions and the "worn-out", subjects where neglect is a characteristic associated with the lack of confirmation of their efforts, due to the little control or devaluation of the results from these [4]. BS can reach any professional, but it has its focus of study in activities related to teaching and health services, as they involve a dynamic relationship of intense contact with people who need assistance [5,6]. With regard to professionals directed to health care for children and adolescents, in addition to the attention to individuals in phases of active development and requiring a differentiated approach (due to the inherent characteristics of the age group), they maintain a constant interaction with the relatives or caregivers; a condition that can create situation of conflict (stress and mental fatigue), with implications on the quality of the service offered [7]. The present study was justified, according to what was previously exposed and considering the lack of needed information in this subject. This has the overall objective of determining the prevalence and risk factors for Burnout in child and adolescent health care workers.

Methods
A cross-sectional study was performed with descriptive and analytical statistics, based on a margin of error of 5.0%. The study area included the city of Campina Grande, Paraiba State, Northeastern Brazilian. The population comprised 87 municipal health professionals for children and adolescents officially recognized (doctors, dentists, nurses, psychologists and physiotherapists).
The inclusion criteria: professional exercise in the area of health care for children and / or adolescents (six months at least) during data collection time. Professionals who were in a function that was not compatible with the training area emphasized or who did not voluntarily participate in the survey were excluded. In the initial phase of this research, when a pilot study was developed with professionals linked to university teaching, two adapted versions of the MBI (Maslach Burnout Inventory) Chafic Jbeili version [8], (more directed to Brazilian teachers and educators), and the MBI-HSS (Maslach Burnout Inventory for Human Services Survey), a widely used version in the health area [9]. From a high internal consistency (Cronbrach 0 0.88) and a better understanding of the first one was established for the present study. It was adopted a questionnaire as instrument for data collection: socio-demographic, training, occupation, free time activities and MBI variables considered in the analysis. There was a reduction in the number of items to 20 (MBI version), preserving the structure and the three dimensions that characterize SB: nine regarding emotional exhaustion [1][2][3]6,[10][11][12][13][14], [4,[7][8][9][15][16][17], and seven were related to reduced professional achievement [5,12,15,18,19]. The frequency with which each feeling occurs in the areas from a psychometric scale, with values from 1 to 5 (1 = never, 2 = annually, 3 = monthly, 4 = weekly and 5 = daily) is measured.
Subsequently, the sum of the points, in the form of scores:

Results
For a universe of 87 the total sample comprised 74 (85%), who accepted to participate in this research. Of these, 11 (14.9%) were evaluated in the pilot study, being discarded from the final sample, due to necessary adjustments in the determined sociodemographic variables. Among the 63 professionals who participated in the final sample, the following distribution occurred according to the health specialty: 47 physicians, 5 psychologists, 5 nurses, 4 dentists and 2 physiotherapists. The subjects' ages ranged from 23 to 76 years, with a mean of 41 years (SD = 12.33) and a median of 40 years. According to the sociodemographic characteristics of the professionals interviewed, the highest percentage (47.6%) corresponded to those who were between 30 and 49 years old, followed by those aged 50 years or older (28.6%) or up to 29 years (23.8%). Of these, the majority (90.5%) were female. In relation to the marital status, 66.7% were married or in a stable / consensual union and 71.4% lived with a family, followed by 19% who lived with their parents and 9.5%, who lived alone or in another situation not specified.
Children or dependents were registered to 61.9% of the professionals, being 41.3% with more than two dependents. The  Regarding the total classified, approximately half (50.8%) had the possibility of developing Burnout, followed by 46.0% with this process in the initial phase; to 3.2% the syndrome was already beginning to settle. No patients were searched without evidence or at a considerable stage for this disease. The statistics of SB's dimensions a there is a non-high variability (values of standard deviations less than 35% of the respective mean values). The results of the classifications of the averages were: low for EE, moderate for ED and high RRP. The total score was classified as Burnout in the initial phase. There was a significant difference between the marital status and the income range in depersonalization: the mean was one unit (1.00) higher among married / stable union than among single / widowed / separated (7.86 x 6.86) and increased with the income range, with 6.90 in the range of up to 10 minimum wages (up to U $ 3,060), 7.82 in the range with 11 or more minimum wages (equal to or greater than U $ 3,500) and 8.38 in the range of 21 or more minimum wages (equal to or greater than U $ 6,400). Through the multiple comparisons tests there was a significant difference between those who had income up to 10 minimum wages with those who had income with 21 or more minimum wages. "Emotional exhaustion" and free time for leisure or physical activities was the only variable with statistical significance (p <0.05).

Discussion
Burnout, a process started with excessive and prolonged levels of stress in the work environment, has been considered a major occupational problem today, a challenge to global public health. This is due to a growing number of people, a lack of a better and broader approach on the subject, with undiagnosed and properly treated staff and the complexity of the repercussions involved, not only from an organizational or institutional point of view, but also in the quality of life of the employees, professionals in the areas of education, human and health. Thus, and due to the lack of information on its prevalence, epidemiological studies need to be encouraged [10][11][12]. There are four theoretical conceptions for the diagnosis of SB, based on possible factors related to its etiology: clinical, organizational, socio historic and sociopsychological, this is the most used in the studies. In this sense and for the evaluation of the phenomenon, the instruments still show weaknesses, particularly regarding the comprehension and viability of application in populations with differentiated characteristics. Many adaptations have been employed for the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), still recognized as the gold standard for this, because of its complexity. It is reinforced that these represent a screening for Burnout, not replacing the evaluation and closure of the diagnosis, by medical professionals and psychology [13]. In the present study, with the approach directed to health care professionals for children and adolescents, the great majority of the sample was female. The predominance of women in health care has been highlighted. The "ideal profile" of these caregivers for the above mentioned target population is related to the expanded role of motherhood, which strengthens their empathic commitment to patient care, and is an advantageous aspect in relation to non-development of BS.14 On the other hand, the dual workload of women (in the exercise of work and at home, as wife and mother), still emphasized in societies, would constitute a risk factor for this phenomenon; a fact that may be associated with an implicit or explicit discrimination of women as servants and a neglect observed in male attention when in the presence of symptoms for the different phases of this problem [15]. According to the data obtained in this research, there was a greater vulnerability among the married professionals or with a stable / consensual union and in the family monthly income question, regarding the OD dimension for Burnout, there were no significant associations between the other variables investigated, in training or vocational qualification and work.

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Copyrights @ Luciana de Barros Correia Fontes, et al. Inter Ped Dent Open Acc J 160 [19] emphasized that child care professionals tend to tolerate stressful aspects of the environment and are still motivated and engaged, with the absence of positive employment resources, such as recognition for work (including the financial component), autonomy and the use of skills, the causes most associated with high levels of Burnout dimensions (EE, DP and LRP). For Swider and Zimmerman [20], there is a greater focus of research under the organizational and labor spheres, forgetting individual-level variables such as personality, or when considering personality, focuses on a limited number of these traits. As well as individual characteristics, turnover, absenteeism and performance at work have been little discussed in the literature on burnout. The results in the present study should be analyzed considering the inherent limitations of the methodology adopted and the lack of a control group (this is particularly related to the information difficulties regarding the universe of health professionals), as well as the sample size.

Conclusion
Although the prevalence of characteristics associated with Burnout Syndrome was considerable (49.2%) for this group, there was no positive association between the variables related to free time and work, except for the sociodemographic variables, monthly family income and marital status.