Burnout e qualidade de vida no atletismo

Abstract

Athletics is a competitive sport with its own competitive characteristics. These professionals, in order to devote themselves to training and competition, often need to abstract personal problems and pressures to which they are subjected daily. The feeling of devaluation and the reduction of athletes' performance are characteristic of Burnout and found in the sports environment, interfering negatively in their quality of life. Objective: To evaluate Burnout Syndrome and the correlation with quality of life in high performance athletes. Methods: The study was composed of 14 athletes of both sexes and of different modalities, aged between 16 and 35 years and the following instruments were used: WHOQOL-bref to evaluate the quality of life, Athlete Burnout Questionnaire to evaluate the Syndrome of Burnout and a Sociodemographic questionnaire for surveying personal questions. Statistical analysis will be used the level of significance of 0.05. Results: 65% of the participants presented a score below 2.5, which suggests the burnout syndrome. The Physical and Emotional Exhaustion component was the most affected, represented by 71% of them, followed by Devaluation of the sport modality 64% and reduced sense of accomplishment 64%. Of the injuries obtained with the practice of the sport, 78.54% of the participants accept the idea that they can be directly related to the stress and the fatigue. Conclusion: The investigation of this study on the interference of Burnout syndrome in the quality of life of high performance athletes did not present a correlation, denying the hypothesis that Burnout syndrome could interfere directly in the quality of life of these participants.