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. 2021 Jun;43(2):131-136.

[Resilience skills as a protective factor against burnout for health professionals: a cross-sectional study on new hires from the hospital of Lodi]

[Article in Italian]
Ivana Cacciatori  1 , Chiara Grossi  1 , Ciro D'Auria  1 , Asia Bruneri  1 , Camilla Casella  1
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[Resilience skills as a protective factor against burnout for health professionals: a cross-sectional study on new hires from the hospital of Lodi]

[Article in Italian]
Ivana Cacciatori et al. G Ital Med Lav Ergon. 2021 Jun.

Abstract
in English, Italian

Burnout symptoms are very common in health professionals. Public health workers are exposed to high levels of distress due to the need to face their parents' health problems. For this reason, they need to preserve some resources that can protect them from emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and low personal realization. Therefore, we analyzed the relationship between resilience and burnout in a sample of 85 health workers from the hospital of Lodi. Subjects who took part of the study are physicians, nurses, health and social workers, etc. Results show a significative correlation between resilience and two of the three burnout dimensions (emotional exhaustion and personal realization) and a predictive value of resilience for the same dimensions mentioned above. These considerations confirm the importance of resilience to face distress and to avoid burnout.

I sintomi di burnout sono comuni fra i professionisti della salute. Gli operatori sanitari del settore pubblico sono sottoposti ad uno stress consistente a causa del tipo di lavoro e del confronto continuo con i pazienti e la loro salute. Per questa ragione, devono disporre di una riserva di abilità che li proteggano dall’esaurimento emotivo, dalla depersonalizzazione e dalla scarsa realizzazione personale. Abbiamo voluto verificare quindi la relazione sussistente tra la resilienza ed il burnout in un campione di 85 operatori sanitari proveniente dall’ASST di Lodi. I partecipanti sono stati medici, infermieri, operatori sociosanitari, ecc. I risultati hanno indicato correlazioni significative tra la resilienza e due delle tre dimensioni del burnout (esaurimento emotivo e realizzazione personale) ed un valore predittivo della resilienza per le stesse dimensioni sopra citate. Queste considerazioni riconfermano la necessità di avere capacità di resilienza per far fronte allo stress e non incorrere nel burnout.

Keywords: Burnout; Emotional exhaustion; Health workers; Personal realization; Resilience.

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