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Occupational characteristics and Burnout Syndrome in Brazilian correctional staff

2016; IOS Press; Volume: 55; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3233/wor-162367

1875-9270

Raquel Oliveira, Valéria Cristina Schneider, Fernanda Salloume Sampaio Bonafé, João Marôco, Juliana Álvares Duarte Bonini Campos,

Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout

In the correctional context, occupational characteristics may contribute to the development of burnout.To compare the scores of Emotional Exhaustion (EE), Cynicism (CY) and Professional Efficacy (PE) of staff members according to occupational variables in two correctional facilities (CF1 and CF2).339 Brazilian employees from two correctional facilities completed a socio-demographic/occupational questionnaire and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS). The comparison between the scores obtained on each MBI-GS factor, according to variables of interest vs. correctional facilities, was performed using analysis of variance (ANOVA-two way: p < 0.05).Statistically significant differences were observed between the levels of EE, CY and PE between the correctional facilities (p < 0.001); staff from CF2 presented worse levels. Women (p = 0.014) and individuals with a 10-year tenure or higher (p = 0.041) presented higher levels of EE. Lower scores of professional efficacy were found in CF2 staff members with a 10-year tenure or higher (p = 0.018). The prison escort and surveillance agents presented mean values of EE (p = 0.030) and CY (p = 0.008) that were significantly lower than those of the correctional security officers.The scores of EE, CY and PE of the staff members suffered a significant influence from the correctional facility, gender, professional category and tenure.