Síndrome de Burnout y su relación con la calidad de vida en cuidadores de paciente con tuberculosis. Centro de Salud Nº 4. Año 2021.

Abstract

Background: According to the WHO, Ecuador is among the ten countries with the highest burden of tuberculosis, control programs have not managed to control the disease satisfactorily due to not having detected a sufficient number of cases, with an accelerated increase in its prevalence, affecting the quality of life of their relatives. Methods: Relational type research. According to the researcher's intervention, it is observational, according to his planning, it is prospective, according to the number of occasions in which the study variable is measured, it is cross-sectional, and according to the number of analytical variables, it is analytical. Variables: Sociodermographic, overload and quality of life. The information was obtained by survey and psychometric test. Results: The five-year group from 30 to 34 years old predominated with 25%; and the female sex with 58.3%. Mild overload with 72.2%, low quality of life with 69.4%, chi-square association X2 = 10.322, p = 0,006. Conclusions: Mild overload, low quality of life and there is no statistical association between Burnout and the quality of life of the caregiver.