Síndrome de Burnout o Quemado con relación a las condiciones laborales de los/as Trabajadores Sociales que laboran en el área de salud en las ciudades Guayaquil y Machala en el año 2017.

Abstract

This investigation was done under the problematic of “Development of Burnout Syndrome through the work conditions in Social Workers of health area institutes in the cities of Machala, and Guayaquil, Ecuador”. This investigation purpose was, to establish the existence of the syndrome in the Social Workers of health institutes in two cities of Ecuador, Machala and Guayaquil, and how their labor conditions influenced in the development of the Burnout Syndrome, based with a Systemic Approach and using the theory of Symbolic Interactionism. This investigation was developed with a mixed approach, applied and with an exploratory, descriptive level. The participants of this investigation were 30 Social Workers of health institutes public and private such as hospitals, clinics and health centers, in the city of Guayaquil 19 Social Workers and in the city of Machala 11 Social Workers; the information was obtained from the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI-HSS) and an individual interview. It was relevant to our results, that the Social Workers that participated in the investigation, had a high percentage of high emotional exhaustion, and high depersonalization, never the less it was found that they also presented high personal development which can be beneficial for them for the prevention of the Burnout Syndrome.