Relationship between burnout and empathy in medical students from a private university in Peru

• Autores: Huarcaya-Victoria, Jeff, Delfín, Gabriel, Huamán, Diego
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.csi.unmsm:article/16259
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/16259
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Agotamiento Psicológico; Empatía; Estudiantes de Medicina; Perú

Introduction. Burnout among medical students is a serious and common entity. It has been documented that burnout is related to a reduction in empathy. Objective. To evaluate the relationship between Burnout syndrome and empathy levels in medical students. Methods. A cross-sectional study developed in 245 first year medical students in a medical school from Lima. The Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBISS), the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE-S) and a sociodemographic data collection sheet were used. Results. It was found that a correlation between the total MBI-SS and the JSPE-S (p = -0,269; p <0,01). The correlations between the dimensions of the burnout and the total of the JSPE-S were: emotional exhaustion (AE) (p = -0,137; p <0,05), cynicism (CI) (p = -0,241; p <0,01) and academic effectiveness (EA) (p = 0,262; p <0,01). Conclusions. Empathy in medical students shows a correlation with all the dimensions of burnout; negatively with the AE and CI, and positively with the EA.