Comparative prevalence of Burnout Syndrome among medical residencies: Systematic Review.
Burnout, Quality of life, Medical Staff
Context: Burnout is a psychological syndrome much prevalent in medical residents. It consists of emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP) and reduced personal accomplishment (PA). Goal: to estimate burnout syndromeprevalence among different medical residencies specialties.
Methods:systematic review following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. Were accessed: Embase, PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Scopus, and 3.575 studies were found. Methodological quality was evaluatedbyAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality Methodology Checklist for Cross-Sectional/Prevalence Study. In the final analysis, 26 papers were included.
Results:4.664 medical residents were included. High DP, EE and low PA proportions were compared. Specialties are distributed into three different levels burnout prevalence groups: general surgery, anesthesiology, obstetrics/gynecologyand orthopedics(40.8%); internal medicine, plastic surgery and pediatrics(30.0%); otolaryngology and neurology (15.4%). Overall burnout prevalence found for all specialties was 35.7%.
Conclusions: It was identified a high prevalence among surgical/urgency residencies.