Health Care : Current Reviews

Stress, burnout, depressive symptoms and hardiness among female multidisciplinary residents

Global Healthcare & Fitness Summit

July 20-22, 2015 San Francisco, USA

Bruna Ruviaro Muller, Fillipe Grando Lopes, Ana Lucia Siqueira Costa, Rodrigo Marques da Silva, Laura de Azevedo Guido and Luis Felipe Dias Lopes

Public Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil

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Abstract:

Multidisciplinary residents are exposed to stress more situations of both academic and work environment at the same time compared to a usual student or worker. Also, female residents are generally responsible for children care and home demands which increase the risk of higher stress levels and its outcomes such as Burnout Syndrome and Depressive Symptoms. However, investigations that evaluate the association among these phenomena in this population are limited, so we analyzed the relations among stress, Burnout, Depressive Symptoms and Hardy Personality in Brazilian female residents enrolled in a multidisciplinary residence program. An analytical cross-sectional and quantitative study was conducted with 31 residents from April to June 2011in a university hospital using the following tools: Work Stress Scale, Maslach Burnout Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory and Hardiness Scale. Pearson�??s Correlation Test was applied to evaluate the association among stress and other phenomena. (p<0.05) were considered statically significant. Ethics Committee approved this research. We found positive and strong significant correlations between stress and Burnout (p=0.00; r=0.7425) and Depressive Symptoms (p=0.00; r=0.7415). In addition, stress was negatively and strongly associated to Commitment (p=0.03; r=-0.5201) and Challenge (p=0.00; r=-0.5637). Findings indicate that when stress levels increase, residents are more likely to show Burnout and Depressive Symptoms. On other hand, Hardy residents are more likely to show lower stress levels which protect them from negative stress outcomes including Burnout and Depression. University institutions should develop strategies to promote Hardiness features aiming to relieve the stress levels and its outcomes in female multidisciplinary residents.

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Email: lflopes67@yahoo.com.br