Burnout-related factors in health professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic: an integrative review

Abstract

The outbreak of the new coronavirus pandemic has increased the workload on health professionals, who have been subjected to circumstances of great physical and psychological stress that can lead to the development of burnout. This study aimed to understand the effects and consequences of working during the Covid-19 pandemic on the mental health of healthcare workers and factors that may be associated with the development of burnout syndrome. This is an integrative review performed
on the PubMed, Cinahl, Scopus, Embase and VHL databases, using the descriptors: “health personnel”,
“burnout, professional”, and “Covid-19”, with the Boolean operator AND. The initial search resulted in
229 articles, and after the application of inclusion and exclusion criteria, the final sample consisted of 12
articles. Through the Descending Hierarchical Classification, performed by the IRaMuTeQ, software, a dendrogram with 6 classes was obtained, named ‘Nursing professionals and female gender’, ‘Experience in health work’, ‘Work overload and uncertainties about the future’, ‘Age of professionals’, ‘Fear of infection and transmission’, ‘Front line in the fight against the pandemic’.