The burnout syndrome in the workplace and its relation to Illness in Education Personal of secondary schools in Mexico City

Introduction
We have identified a wide variety of health damage in the teaching population (Coredeiro, Guillen, Gala, Lupiani, Benitez and Gomez, 2003) and Leibovich and the Shuf, 2002). While burnout is recognized as a disease primarily of a psychological, are also associated with it a host of physical ailments (Gil-Monte & Peiró 1997), (Hernández, Juárez, Hernandez and Ramirez, 2005)

Objective: We report the prevalence of burnout according to Gil-Monte´s model (2005) in secondary level education staff of the City of Mexico and its relationship with diseases diagnosed by a doctor in the past 12 months.

Methods
The research was conducted with 939 participants from 66 schools in all delegations of Mexico City.
Instruments: We used the Questionnaire for the Evaluation of Burnout Syndrome Work for Staff Education (CESQT-PE) prepared by Gil-Monte (2005) and a list of diseases that were diagnosed in the last twelve months.

Results
We found eight cases with pathological profile according to the model of Gil-Monte, (2005); Four profile diagnosed as "severe" (pathological levels of Illusion, wearness, and indolence) and four with profile "very serious" (the former emotions plus a pathological level of guilt). Of the 8 cases, 7 were women and one man. The ones with profile 2 ("very severe"), as a whole have 42 diagnosed diseases, this is more than 10 diseases on average per subject; the ones with Profile 1 ("severe") had a total of 39 diseases, this is more 9 diseases on average per subject.

Discussion
Secondary Education staff in Mexico City show serious conditions in both physical and mental health, it is important to establish an intervention program which would improve working conditions that lead to prevention, care and promotion of health of both teachers and management staff and support.