Burnout among nursing students: predictors and association with empathy and self-efficacy.

Autor: Lopes AR; Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná. Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil., Nihei OK; Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná. Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil.
Jazyk: English; Portuguese
Zdroj: Revista brasileira de enfermagem [Rev Bras Enferm] 2020 Feb 10; Vol. 73 (1), pp. e20180280. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Feb 10 (Print Publication: 2020).
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0280
Abstrakt: Objective: to analyze burnout, its predictors and association with empathy and self-efficacy among nursing students.
Method: cross-sectional analytical study with 284 students from five state universities in the state of Parana, Brazil. The instruments applied were: social and academic questionnaire, Maslach Burnout Inventory, Interpersonal Reactivity Index and Occupational Self-Efficacy Scale (Short Form). Spearman's correlation and univariate and multivariate logistic analysis were used.
Results: 6.0% of the students presented high burnout, 36.3% presented high emotional exhaustion, 37.7% presented high depersonalization and 28.2% presented low personal accomplishment. The burnout predictors were: absence of physical activity; weekly workload >24 hours; low empathic concern. There were negative correlations between empathy (empathic concern and perspective taking) and depersonalization; self-efficacy and emotional exhaustion; and positive correlations between personal accomplishment and empathy and self-efficacy.
Conclusion: Personal factors and an academic variable were burnout predictors among nursing students. The correlations suggest that self-efficacy and empathy can prevent burnout.
Databáze: MEDLINE