Scientific evidence on the association between burnout and metabolic syndrome: Integrative review

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the scientific evidence available in the literature on the association between Burnout Syndrome and Metabolic Syndrome. Methods: Integrative literature review, searching the databases of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Web of Science, Scopus, Cochrane Library, Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information, Scientific Eletronic Library Online and Springer Link. The selected articles were analyzed according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Results: Most (80%) of the 5 studies that met the selection criteria were in English language and indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Among the studies, 80% had physicians as the main authors. The Asian continent (Israel, Japan and China) concentrated the majority of production. There was no predominance of study design. The financial area corresponded to 60% of the study participants. Conclusion: The available evidence in the literature is incipient, only 20% of the eligible articles showed association between the syndromes studied and the others, indicate association between Burnout and MS components separately.