Burnout in nursing students of a private university

Abstract

Introduction: Burnout is common to all those who perform any activity and are overwhelmedby the lack of time, excess of tasks, increased obligations, and awareness of the impossibilityof fulfilling all that planned. It is not unique to any gender, race, social status, profession orage. Academic Burnout arises from the assumption that students, particularly university students,like any professional, encounter pressures and their own pedagogical work overload. Theymaintain a relationship of direct and indirect compensation with the institution, evidencedby economic support, scholarships and awards. Thus the requirement of work should be equalto the excess of activities and tasks of the learning process.

Objective: To determine the presence of burnout syndrome in students of the School of Nur-sing in a private University in Chile, expressed in sociodemographic variables-academic andrelationship Burnout levels, attitudinal and behavioural areas.

Method: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 244 subjects. To collect the datathe Student Burnout one-dimensional scale was used, as well as a tool for obtaining socio-demographic and academic background. The descriptive analysis is expressed in frequencydistribution tables, and the association between variables using the Spearman correlation indexand Chi2.

Results: All (100%) of the students had Academic Burnout, with the ‘mild’ level prevailing (73.4%), and the behavioural indicator being predominant. There was no significant relationshipin a syndrome association analysis using sociodemographic and academic variables.