Diagnosis and Intervention Program for Burnout Syndrome in Primary and Secondary Teachers at a School in Pereira

Abstract

The aim objective of this research was to develop and measure the effectiveness of a cognitive behavioral program developed by the authors based on a cognitive behavioral model, in order to counter burnout syndrome in teachers dedicated to the primary and secondary education sector of the city of Pereira, which consists of eight sessions that took place over a period of two months (8 weeks) lasting two hours for each session and applied in a population of eighty primary and secondary teachers from a private school in the city of Pereira, Colombia, during the second half of 2019. The study consisted of a quantitative methodology and quasi-experimental model, with pretest and postest measurements. With a control group of 36 teachers an experimental group consisting of 44 teachers, a sociodemographic labor questionnaire and the Maslach Burnout Inventory were used. The formation of the experimental and control groups was carried out in a homogeneous way with teachers presenting high, medium and low level of burnout. The realization of the statistics was done through the SPSS25 program in its version for Windows and effectiveness results were found for the intervention with demonstrative significance greater than 50% in its three components, Emotional Exhaustion, Low Personal Realization and Depersonalization.