Prevalencia del síndrome de Burnout y las estrategias de afrontamiento de Lazarus y Folkman en los estudiantes de posgrado en Odontología de la Universidad Santo Tomás - Bucaramanga

Abstract

Introduction: University students face daily new challenges in the professional environment, which demands physical and psychological effort. Current life circumstances generate the need for important changes, to obtain personal, family and social well-being, causing Burnout Syndrome as a response to chronic work stress. Objective: To determine the prevalence of Burnout syndrome and its respective way of coping according to Lazarus and Folkman, in postgraduate students in Dentistry at Santo Tomás University during the year 2022. Methodology: Analytical cross-section, whose sample obeyed 108 students in which a questionnaire was applied via Google Forms with the purpose of collecting information corresponding to sociodemographic characteristics, Burnout Syndrome Questionnaire (MBI-SS) and Stress Coping Questionnaire (CAE). A descriptive and bivariate analysis was carried out, stratified by dental specialty. Results: The majority of the sample were women 65.74% (n=71), single marital status 63.89% (n=69) belonged to the specialty of endodontics 31.50 (n=34). The MBI-SS determined that emotional exhaustion was found in the majority of students with 63.89% (n=71), cynicism with 59.26% (n=64) and Academic Effectiveness with 58.33% (n=63). Conclusions: Emotional exhaustion prevails at a medium-high level characterized by the feeling of exhaustion and fatigue, with a dropout of medium-high academic efficacy and depersonalization or low cynicism in the vast majority of graduate students. Regarding the ways of coping, they resort to strategies of focusing on the solution of the problem, positive re-evaluation and search for emotional support more frequently.