Burnout Syndrome and Related Factors in Mexican Police Workforces
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
Analysis of Sociodemographic, Work, and Health Factors
3. Results
3.1. Mexico Police Workforce Characterization
3.2. Characteristics of Burnout Syndrome in the Population
3.3. Multilayer Perceptron Neuronal Network of BO and Related Factors
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Dimension | Items | Scores Cut Point | ||
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Normal | Trait | Risk | ||
Emotional Exhaustion (EE) | 1,2,3,6,8,13,14,16,20 | 0–18 | 19–26 | 27–54 |
Depersonanization (DP) | 5,10,11,15,22 | 0–5 | 6–9 | 10–30 |
Personal achievement (PA) | 4,7,9,12,17,18,19,21 | 0–33 | 34–39 | 40–48 |
Characteristic | Data |
---|---|
Age, mean (SD) years | 39.93 (8.66) |
Seniority, mean (SD) years | 11.64 (8.4) |
Body Mass Index, mean (SD) | 29.12 (4.75) |
Education | % (CI 95% lower–upper) |
High School | 16.13 (11.52–20.74) |
College | 60.48 (54.36–66.61) |
Bachelor | 20.56 (15.5–25.63) |
Postgraduate | 2.82 (0.75–4.9) |
Marital status | |
Single | 14.52 (10.1–19.89) |
Married | 73.39 (67.85–78.93) |
Divorced | 12.1 (8.01–16.18) |
Sleeping Hours | |
Less than 4 h | 16.47 (11.83–21.1) |
4 to 6 h | 66.67 (60.77–72.56) |
6 to 9 h | 16.87 (12.18–21.55) |
Work Shifts | |
8 h | 10.04 (6.28–13.8) |
12 × 12 h | 10.44 (6.62–14.27) |
12 × 24 h | 14.86 (10.41–19.31) |
24 × 24 h | 55.82 (55.82–62.03) |
Confined | 4.01 (1.56–6.47) |
others | 4.82 (2.14–7.5) |
Jurisdiction | |
Municipal | 54.84 (48.6–61.08) |
State | 36.29 (30.26–42.32) |
federal | 8.47 (4.98–11.96) |
Other | 0.4 (0–1.2) |
Functions, | |
Operative | 85.89 (81.52–90.25) |
Administrative | 14.11 (9.75–18.48) |
Health Status | |
Poor Health Perc. | 43.17 (35.99–48.34) |
Chron. Diseases | 19.68 (14.71–24.65) |
Hypertension | 17.27 (12.54–22.00) |
Diabetes | 9.24 (5.62–12.86) |
Nutrition Status | |
Poor Diet Quality | 68.95 (61.77–75.13) |
Regular Mealtimes | 15.66 (11.12–20.21) |
Digestive Disorders | 30.92 (25.14–36.7) |
Scale | Score | |||
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Mean (SD) | Normal | Trait | Risk | |
% (CI 95% Lower–Upper) | % (CI 95% Lower–Upper) | % (CI 95% Lower–Upper) | ||
Burnout Syndrome | 69.35 (22.17) | 18.73 (14.65–22.85) a | 57.92 (52.77–63.14) b | 23.36 (18.91–27.81) c |
Dimensions | ||||
Emotional Exhaustion | 23.29 (0.89) | 43.02 (37.82–48.22) | 12.82 (9.31–16.34) | 44.16 (38.94–49.38) |
Depersonalization | 11.38 (0.58) | 34.76 (29.75–39.76) | 15.95 (12.1–19.8) | 49.29 (44.03–54.54) |
Personal Achievement | 34.62 (0.55) | 38.18 (33.07–43.28) | 20.8 (16.53–25.06) | 41.03 (35.85–46.20) |
Emotional Exhaustion | Depersonalization | Personal Achievement | |
---|---|---|---|
Age | −0.192 | −0.179 | 0.189 |
Seniority | 0.252 | 0.213 | −0.226 |
BMI | 0.219 | 0.152 | −0.228 |
Health Status | −0.569 | −0.555 | 0.387 |
Diet Quality | −0.441 | −0.428 | 0.351 |
Since age and seniority were correlated, age was corrected for seniority, and seniority was corrected for age. All correlations were significant at the level of 0.01 |
Emotional Exhaustion | Depersonalization | Personal Achievement | ||||||||
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Mean (SD) | Mean diff | p | Mean (SD) | Mean diff | p | Mean (SD) | Mean diff | p | ||
Chronic diseases | Presence | 31.20 (15.26) | 8.464 | 0.002 | 16.22 (8.94) | 5.204 | 0.001 | 32.29 (9.24) | −3.354 | 0.036 |
Absence | 22.74 (17.38) | 11.02 (9.89) | 35.64 (10.13) | |||||||
Hypertension | Presence | 30.44 (17.25) | 7.296 | 0.012 | 15.95 (10.28) | 4.725 | 0.004 | 32.21 (10.75) | −3.349 | 0.046 |
Absence | 23.15 (17.07) | 11.23 (9.66) | 35.56 (9.8) | |||||||
Diabetes | Presence | 31.78 (15.15) | 8.128 | 0.031 | 14.65 (9.25) | 2.873 | 0.186 | 31.87 (8.91) | −3.427 | 0.119 |
Absence | 23.65 (17.35) | 11.78 (9.96) | 35.30 (10.1) | |||||||
Digestive disorders | Presence | 33.68 (15.88) | 13.447 | <0.001 | 17.43 (9.52) | 7.768 | <0.001 | 31.23 (10.33) | −5.468 | <0.001 |
Absence | 20.23 (16.34) | 9.66 (9.15) | 36.70 (9.46) | |||||||
Regular mealtimes | Yes | 18.67 (16.64) | −6.805 | 0.024 | 8.51 (8.86) | −4.187 | 0.015 | 39.13 (9.59) | 4.919 | 0.005 |
No | 25.47 (17.23) | 12.70 (9.98) | 34.21 (9.94) | |||||||
Sleep quality | <4 h | 30.63 (16.02) | 5.345, 15.801 * | 0.16 | 15.95 (9.5) | 3.668, 8.666 * | 0.076 | 32.37 (10.32) | −1.761, −8.539 * | 0.551 |
4–6 h | 25.29 (16.88) | −5.345, 10.456 * | 0.16 | 12.28 (9.76) | −3.668, 4.997 * | 0.076 | 34.13 (9.95) | 1.761, −6.778 * | 0.551 | |
6–9 h | 14.83 (16.37) | −15.801 *, −10.456 * | 0.001 | 7.29 (9.16) | −8.666 *, −4.997 * | <0.001 | 40.90 (7.77) | 8.539 *, 6.778 * | <0.001 |
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Torres-Vences, I.N.; Pérez-Campos Mayoral, E.; Mayoral, M.; Pérez-Campos, E.L.; Martínez-Cruz, M.; Torres-Bravo, I.; Alpuche, J. Burnout Syndrome and Related Factors in Mexican Police Workforces. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 5537. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095537
Torres-Vences IN, Pérez-Campos Mayoral E, Mayoral M, Pérez-Campos EL, Martínez-Cruz M, Torres-Bravo I, Alpuche J. Burnout Syndrome and Related Factors in Mexican Police Workforces. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(9):5537. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095537
Chicago/Turabian StyleTorres-Vences, Irene N., Eduardo Pérez-Campos Mayoral, Miguel Mayoral, Eduardo Lorenzo Pérez-Campos, Margarito Martínez-Cruz, Iban Torres-Bravo, and Juan Alpuche. 2022. "Burnout Syndrome and Related Factors in Mexican Police Workforces" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 9: 5537. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095537