Zeitschrift für Depression und Angst
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Burnout's Syndrome in Dentists

Cléa Adas Saliba Garbin, Artênio José Isper Garbin, Renata Reis dos Santos, Ana Carolina da Graça Fagundes Freire and Patrícia Elaine Gonçalves

Aims:The aim of this study is evaluate the level of Burnout’s Syndrome in dental surgeons; to verify correlation among sublevels of burnoutand group of social and demographic variables.

Methods: This research has an exploratory, descriptive and cross-sectional character. People that consented participated of this research, answered a semi-structured questioner which has two parts. The first part consists of description of quantitative social and demographic variables. The second is the MASLACH BURNOUT INVENTORY (MBI), which is a tested instrument use in the entire world. To analyze collected data, it was performed descriptive statistical analysis and co-relation of social and demographic variables and sub-levels of MBI, using for this, Pearson’s coefficient, at 5% significance level.

Results:Co-relation among sublevels of quantitative social and demographic variables was “poor” or “so poor”. The majority of professionals showed high level in two categories: emotional exhaustion and depersonalization.

Conclusion:However, professionals showed high level on “professional satisfaction”