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Revista Latinoamericana de Bioética
Print version ISSN 1657-4702On-line version ISSN 2462-859X
Abstract
GARCIA URIBE, John Camilo et al. Ethical Tensions; Causes and Consequences of Burnout Syndrome in Health. Personnel During Covid-19: A Review and Analysis from a Bioethical Perspective. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.1, pp.61-84. Epub June 30, 2023. ISSN 1657-4702. https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.5816.
this is a bibliometric review of the burnout syndrome that affected health professionals during Covid-19, the ethical conflicts that precede and follow it, and the strategies to combat it.
Methodology/approach:
a bibliometric review was carried out in which review articles, cross-sectional studies, meta-analyses, and qualitative studies from all over the world were systematically identified. Once the selection filters were applied, the results were analyzed using Diego Gracia's deliberative method.
Results:
four main subthemes were identified: incidence of burnout during the Covid-19 pandemic, ethical stressors that favor burnout syndrome, consequences of this syndrome, and strategies to prevent and combat it. Each subtopic is described from the individual, institutional, and societal levels.
Discussion/conclusions:
it is argued with Diego Gracia's theory, and a hierarchy of ethical principles involved in burnout is presented; some factors favor the appearance of this professional disease with a deep bioethical significance, in which problems of moral and economic recognition, equity, job security, the duty of care, good medical practice and the welfare of the patient, the family and society in general underlie. Similarly, the consequences of the syndrome have repercussions in the social, institutional, and individual spheres, so interventions for its prevention and care must also have a pluralistic and diverse approach from the macro, meso, and micro levels. In this sense, it is necessary to strengthen research and education strategies to understand, explain, and comprehensively address the phenomenon.
Keywords : bioethics; burnout; professional burnout; principled ethics; moral suffering; Covid-19 pandemic.