Burnout, psychosocial factors and health conditions in Mexican lawyers

Introduction
The presence of the Burnout syndrome (BO) is more frequent in workers who are located in the human services field or in the so-called, caring professions. In this syndrome, the worker are affected physically and emotionally, so that the objective conditions of work and workers contribute to the onset of this pathological condition. Objective. To identify the relationship among the BO syndrome and some occupational psychosocial factors and health complaints in a group of legal workers from a government agency in Mexico.

Methods
A cross-comparative exposfacto study was made with 238 lawyers from a government agency. During a weekday the JCQ, ISTAS, CSQT and a Health conditions questionnaires were applied to the workers. To asses the association among the BO, psychosocial factor and health conditions the Spearman (Rho) correlation, Mann-Whitney test, Chi2, Odd Ratio were used.

Results
From the studied workers, considering the most representative problems, the workers had up to 4 health problems by each of them. The most adverse job psychosocial factors were a low use of skills and a stressful conditions of their work. 1.4% of had a severe level of BO and 4% have 2 or more of pathological symptoms.There was positive correlation between Burnout and the job psychosocial factors studied. The workers with 2 or more pathological symptoms had a significant Odd Ratio with: gastritis, feeling stressed, neck pain, back pain, sleeping problems, leg pain, and anxiety. The logistic regression evaluated the effect of health complaints and was controlled for sex, age, shift, BO and the psychosocial factors. There was no effect of sex or age. Only BO increased the risk for all mentioned complaints health.

Discussion
Workers with two or more positive pathological symptoms, mainly have musculoskeletal complaints. This result could help to guide the routes of intervention at the workplace and to promote their health conditions.