Síndrome de burnout: um estudo sobre sua incidência nos professores do ensino médio das escolas estaduais do município de Santana do Livramento - RS

Abstract

The present study has objective to understand the incidence of Burnout Syndrome and its possible relation with the socio-professional context of high school teachers of the state schools of the city of Santana do Livramento - RS. As specific objectives were established: a) To identify the sociodemographic profile of the teachers researched; b) To investigate the incidence of the dimensions of Burnout Syndrome - emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and low personal accomplishment at work - in the researched teachers; c) Analyze the teachers' perception about the socio-professional context in which they are inserted; d) To relate the sociodemographic profile and the socio-professional context of the teachers studied with the dimensions of the Burnout Syndrome - emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and low personal accomplishment at work. A qualitative, descriptive research was carried out with 13 (thirteen) teachers from 11 (eleven) state high schools. As a result of the research, it can be verified that due to stressors in which the teachers are inserted, being: the conditions of the work environment, the risks of the profession, the day to day experience inside the school, the routine with the students , the goals and objectives to be fulfilled, the stress, the devaluation by the State, the tiring workload and the overload of work, when somatized, can cause the emergence of occupational diseases, as example Burnout. About the dimensions of Burnout, it was observed that emotional exhaustion is the symptom with the greatest predominance in the teachers interviewed, soon followed by the low personal fulfillment, which stood out in the teachers in the phase of retirement.