Abstract

ROSALES RICARDO, Yury et al. Moderate Burnout Syndrome in Students and its Treatment with Thai Traditional Massage. CCM [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.2, pp.203-213. ISSN 1560-4381.

Introduction: Burnout syndrome affects medical students. There are no enough international and national studies on this. The syndrome is only described but physical interventions are not validated. Objective: to determine the effectiveness of traditional Thai massage in the treatment of Burnout syndrome in medical students of Holguín. Methods: a quasi- experimental study was performed during September and December 2011. Applied the traditional Thai massage for 18 weeks with a frequency of three weekly sessions for each patient. The sample comprised ten   students from the first year of medicine at the University of Medical Sciences of Holguin diagnosed with moderate Burnout syndrome. Five of them, were the control group and the other five represented the experimental group that were randomly distributed. To calculate indicators SPSS version 11.5 was used. Results: in the initial test both groups had five members with moderate Burnout (GC = 54.1; GE = 54.2) in the final test students in the experimental group improved: GE = 35.4 (one without Burnout, Burnout three mild, one moderate Burnout) compared with the control group: GC = 52.6 (one mild and three moderate, deep one). Conclusions: the traditional Thai massage was effective in treating moderate Burnout syndrome in medical students.

Keywords : Thai massage; Burnout syndrome; mental health.

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