Introduction:

The Covid-19 pandemic brought many challenges in the mental health of health professionals where Burnout Syndrome (BS) was one of the most prevalent conditions in health workers. Likewise, during this period, an increase in the consumption of alcohol and/or cannabis could be observed to face the difficulties caused by the pandemic.

Objective:

To know the prevalence of SB and alcohol and cannabis consumption and the relationship between SB and types of alcohol consumption after COVID-19 in health workers.

Materials and methods:

The design of the present study was descriptive, correlational. The sample was made up of 84 health workers chosen by convenience sampling. The data analysis was carried out through proportions, 95% Confidence Intervals, Pearson's Chi2 and Spearman classification.

Results:

It was found that the health workers presented moderately high levels of Burnout Syndrome, the worker who worked in the Covid-19 area, higher percentages were present in the SB categories, 31% presented a high level of emotional exhaustion, 20.2 % a high level of depersonalization and 25 % a low level of personal fulfillment. Regarding the use of psychoactive substances, no significant differences were found either, although of the workers who were in the Covid-19 area, 64.3 % reported consuming alcohol and 33.3 % cannabis. Regarding the type of alcohol consumption, it was found that 36.9 % have sensible consumption, 26. % have dependent consumption and 36.9 % have harmful consumption. Likewise, the type of harmful alcohol consumption was significantly correlated with the level of emotional exhaustion (p > .05).

Conclusions:

which indicates that workers who have greater emotional exhaustion also have a type of harmful alcohol consumption.

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