Burnout syndrome, physical activity and factors that affect the servers of a federal university in southern Brazil

Abstract

The study sought to identify the prevalence of Burnout Syndrome (SB) and its association with occupational factors and physical activity (AF) in technical-administrative servers (STA) of a federal university in southern Brazil. The sample was composed by 203 STA. Foram collected sociodemographic, occupational, nutritional, SB and PA practice data. The prevalence of BS among the STA was 50%, being that it was inversely associated with age group (p=0.02) and with administrative or desk activities (p=0.008), both with protection greater than 30 %. It was concluded that the prevalence of BS is high among the STA and policies aimed at reducing two factors that lead to BS among STA should be created and implemented by the institution helping in the reduction of the treatment.