Depressive Symptoms and Burnout Among Medical Students: a Prospective Study

Autor: Edgar R. Miller, Spyridon S Marinopoulos, Joseph Cofrancesco, David M. Levine, Amanda Bertram, Jocelynn T. Owusu, Padmini D Ranasinghe, Hsin Chieh Yeh, Henry J. Michtalik
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: J Gen Intern Med
ISSN: 1525-1497
0884-8734
Popis: BACKGROUND: Depressive symptoms and burnout are common among medical students. However, few studies have investigated their trajectory over the course of medical school. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate year-by-year changes in depressive and burnout symptoms over the course of medical school training. DESIGN: Prospective study. PARTICIPANTS: Medical students who matriculated at a private medical school in Maryland from 2010 to 2016 (n=758). MAIN MEASURES: Clinically significant depressive symptoms were defined as a score of ≥10 on the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), and burnout was measured using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). High emotional exhaustion, high depersonalization, and low personal accomplishment were defined as scores of ≥ 27, ≥10, and ≤33 on the respective MBI subscales. KEY RESULTS: At matriculation, the prevalences of significant depressive symptoms, high emotional exhaustion, high depersonalization, and low personal accomplishment were 4.3%, 9.4%, 8.6%, and 37.7%, respectively. After adjustment for age, sex, race/ethnicity, marital status, and cohort, compared with year 1, the odds of significant depressive symptoms was significantly higher at the beginning of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years of study (ORs=2.63, 2.85, and 3.77, respectively; all ps
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