Physical and mental exhaustion’s incidence in health personnel of the Guayaquil Uni-versity Hospital, pilot test

Abstract

Introduction: Physical and mental exhaustion in the neonatal intensive care health personnel of the Hospital Gineco-obstetrico y Pediátrico Universitario de Guayaquil, in the period from August 2019 to May 2020, leads to an inappropriate lifestyle and a direct affectation in the biological, psychological, ecological and social spheres of the individual who suffers from it and his family framework. This investigative process proposes to know the effects on health, physical and mental exhaustion, in the different affective spheres of interpersonal relationships such as family, social and especially work, as well as the degree of job satisfaction of the healthcare professionals. Objective: The objective of this study is to determine the incidence of physical and mental exhaustion in health personnel in neonatal intensive care at the University Hospital. Materials and methods: The type of research was field, cross-sectional and descriptive. The technique was the multiple choice survey and an interview with open questions. The questionnaire-type instrument and the other script-type instrument of open questions were validated. The information was collected and entered into a database and processed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 25.0. Fundamentally descriptive statistics were used to process the data and then data triangulation. Results: When asked if they feel that their work leads them to physical and mental exhaustion, the study sample revealed that 13.3% always, 20% almost always, 60% sometimes and 6.7% never. Conclusion: It is concluded that there is a high incidence of physical and mental exhaustion in health professionals in the neonatal intensive care unit of the University Hospital of Guayaquil in the period 2019-2020.