Socio-Psychological Training as a Tool for the Prevention of Mental Burnout of Medical Volunteers in Professionally Oriented Volunteer Activities

   Bibliometric analysis of the literature showed an increase in interest in the study of volunteering in the medical field. The most relevant areas of volunteer research are: burnout of volunteers during COVID-19 and burnout of medical volunteers. The structure of socio-psychological attitudes of interpersonal interaction of medical volunteers is highlighted: emotional, cognitive and behavioral components. The formative experiment involved 60 medical volunteers aged 19 to 25 years, engaged in volunteer activities in the field of medicine for up to 1 year. The bases of the study were the Kursk State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and the ANO TSSPSKR Phoenix. Research methods: questionnaire "Professional burnout" (PV) (Russian version by N. E. Vodopyanova, E. S. Starchenkova), questionnaire "Methods of coping behavior" by R. Lazarus and S. Folkman in adaptation by T. L. Kryukova, E. V. Kuftyak, EmIn test (D. V. Lyusin), "Style of self-regulation of behavior" (A. V. Morosanova). Mathematical and statistical processing of information (descriptive statistics and comparative analysis) was carried out using the computer program "Statistica 11.0" and the method of structural and psychological analysis of A. V. Karpov. Based on the results of the ascertaining stage of the formative experiment, a program for the prevention of mental burnout of medical volunteers engaged in professionally oriented volunteer activities for up to 1 year was developed and tested. The program of prevention of mental burnout of volunteers is a group socio-psychological training-intensive.

   The purpose of the training is to form the resistance of medical volunteers to mental burnout by increasing their psychological competence in interpersonal interaction, the main causes of mental burnout and methods of their elimination.

   In the course of the work, a decrease in the level of mental stress in groups was revealed, the assimilation of knowledge about the causes of mental burnout and methods of their study; work was done on the resistance to mental burnout of medical volunteers.

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