Desgaste profesional en los médicos de Atención Primaria de Barcelona

Objective: to describe job burnout and to analyse the influence of the sociodemographic variables. Design: observational descriptive transversal study. Emplacement: 93 Primary Health Care centres in the province of Barcelona. Method: individual or collective direct interview to 528 Primary Health Care physicians. Two questioners were administrated for sociodemographic data and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). Results: the 40% of the interviewed physicians had some burnout symptom without any difference between sexes. The 12.4% of these ones showed very high burnout levels. Conclusions: nowadays the percentage gives in general practitioners show high burnout, mainly the professionals give half age (37-45 years old) that work more then 40 weekly hours than 10 years in the same center.