Prevalence of Burnout among Universiti Sains Malaysia Medical Students
| Autor: | Yeong Yeh Lee, Ri Wei Andrew Chin, Mung Seong Wong, Nur Farhanie Mahadi, Yun Yuan Chua, Muhamad Saiful Bahri Yusoff, Min Ning Chu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Nursing (miscellaneous) 020205 medical informatics Cross-sectional study business.industry Ethics committee Ethnic group Medicine (miscellaneous) 02 engineering and technology Burnout Health Professions (miscellaneous) Education 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Family medicine Pedagogy Respondent 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Education in Medicine Journal. 8 |
| ISSN: | 2180-1932 |
| DOI: | 10.5959/eimj.v8i3.454 |
| Popis: | Introduction: The academic life of medical students can be considered as psychological toxic. Abouthalf of United States medical students experience burnout and more than 25% experience depression.This study aimed to determine the prevalence of burnout among medical students in a Malaysianmedical school and its associated factors. Methods: This is a cross sectional study of 452 medicalstudents from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Copenhagen Burnout Inventory was distributedvia Google Forms through Facebook Messenger. Ethical approval was obtained from the HumanResearch Ethics Committee USM. Data were collected via Google Sheets. Each respondent onlysubmitted one Google Form as no resubmission link was provided once completed Google Form wassubmitted. Result: The prevalence of burnout among USM medical students was 67.9%. Personalburnout was the highest (81.6%), followed by work-related burnout (73.7%) and client-relatedburnout (68.6%). The analysis showed that regardless of year of study, gender and ethnicity (all P >0.05), USM medical students were vulnerable to burnout. Conclusion: The prevalence of burnoutamong USM medical students was high and the most prevalent type of burnout was personal burnout.Therefore, burnout among medical students should be a concern and must be addressed to preventsubsequent unwanted consequences. |
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