Source: Lanacion.com
More than half experience symptoms of burnout or burnout, as exhaustion or detachment from the patient
Darius Palavecino Mar del Plata Correspondent
MAR DEL PLATA .- The work is health. How true and how much will this old myth sentence? For much of the psychiatrists, the damage involves the daily practice of the profession that assertion apart.
Studies in recent years, more than half is emotional exhaustion, detachment of patient dissatisfaction and poor job performance, called the core symptoms of burnout or burnout.
But these days they run, with international financial and economic crisis, health service problems and increased demand for consultations, and anticipated higher percentages in a new survey on the subject that was launched during the development of XXV Argentine Congress of Psychiatry, held last week at the Sheraton Mar del Plata Hotel.
"Not all mental health problems have their roots long ago and far away," says the psychiatrist and psychologist Elsa Wolfberg, a specialist in burnout. Remember that psychology postulates that mental disorders are born in the early years of life based on family ties.
"For better transit in those days of childhood and adolescence, certain adverse conditions or dysfunctional work generate new diseases," says La Nacion, and confirms: "The work can be a source of disease."
psychologist Herbert Freudenberger, who was described as burnout or overload wear faced by their colleagues and psychiatrists. Wolfberg puts it as a picture of chronic stress generated in frequent contact with people suffering or dependents with different consequences for the professional. "Given this, eat more, smoke more, or more as a way of medical relief," he said.
The specialist, in charge of preventive psychiatry chapter of the Association of Psychiatry, Argentina, highlighted the concern that exists for the discomfort and lack of working conditions in the sector, to sprout seeds for burnout. "We have colleagues who suffer heart attacks or cancer in over half the population," he said. He also mentioned cases of disability. And others still worse. Argentina has no statistics on the issue, but noted that in England, for example, health professionals have a suicide rate two times higher than the average population. In the case of female doctors is three times higher. He said that rate is even higher among psychiatrists. "
A study carried out by the portal Intramed and presented at this conference says that over 6150 health professionals surveyed, 36.3% have the perception of "burnt out" or hit by burnout related to emotional exhaustion. Victims of aggression
In recent decades, says Wolfberg, we analyzed the job stressors and created a work psychopathology. The office is usually an area in which the practitioner is a victim of hostility, overhead, depreciation or disqualification of their work. Rescued a survey conducted by Intramed of 30,000 health professionals in Latin America confirms that 50% of the respondents suffered physical or verbal abuse by patients or their relatives.
To this is added the workplace. The specialist suggests that psychiatrists often serve in hospitals where and how you can. "I have been in a hallway and up in a morgue," he said. And confirms that to accomplish the task, the professional must create a "virtual bell" to carry out that session. "This, he says, undermines the professional welfare."
Rate of "frustrating" these conditions for the practice of medicine, in addition to issues of empathy, dissatisfaction with income, professional liability pressures and risks of malpractice among these splinters mellan psychiatrist.
Young "wear out" faster than the experienced, which is recognized more "armor", as defined by Wolfberg.
A personal research commissioned a national health service left him alarming results. In one, 100% of the doctors suffered burnout.
There is a shortcut to avoid this disease and appears to be prevention. In the Federal Capital, for example, already has a law against burnout. At the same time, the ABC of the recommendations suggests health care, opportunities for dialogue group in the workplace, recognizing suffering, a spirit of cooperation over competition and to recognize their peers.
"exercise the profession does not have to stop being a pleasant thing," insists Wolfberg. And returns to the charge against that statement seems more myth than truth: "No-sentencing conditions," the work is not health. "
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