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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2006
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- Burnout process and hiv/aids: main implications for health care workers Bernardo Moreno Jiménez Raquel Rodríguez Carvajal Lilian Velasco Furlong Eva Garrosa Hernández Ma. Eugenia Morante Benadero Psicología HIV AIDS nurses burnout revision Burnout has been identified as a significant problem inhealth care professions, particularly for those working inchronic care. Occupational burnout is conceptualised as aparticular type of stress occurring principally in professionalcontexts where work overload demands, especially those ofan interpersonal nature, lead to chronic emotional exhaustion,depersonalization and reduced sense of personal accomplishmentexplaining most of the physical and psychologicalproblems at work. The issue of burnout in health careworkers in the area of HIV disease has become increasinglyimportant in the past decade. However, there has been littlesystematic research in this area. The present article is a selectedreview of the literature, through more than 200 articleson burnout in health care workers treating HIV/AIDS patientspublished since 1988. The main purpose is to providea framework and a global paradigm of the burnout processin different health workers looking after patients with AIDS.Among the aspects evaluated are the process, stressors, buffersand consequences of burnout. The analysis shows thepresence of methodological inconsistencies that have hinderedthe development of a coherent view in this specific field,and the establishment of effective prevention and interventionprogrammes. 2006 artículo científico 0121-5469 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=80401508 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=804 Revista Colombiana de Psicología application/pdf Universidad Nacional de Colombia Revista Colombiana de Psicología (Colombia) Num.15