Abstract
BackgroundBurnout is prevalent among medical students. Throughout their training, medical students face many psychosocial stresses that, if not managed, might cause burnout syndrome. Burnout could negatively impact students’ life and their academic performance. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of burnout among medical students at the College of Medicine, University of Kerbala, and assess factors associated with it.An analytic cross-sectional study. A sample of 424 students from all academic years from the College of Medicine, University of Kerbala, was approached. Data collection was conducted from June 11 to July 3, 2020, through a self-administered online questionnaire based on the Maslach Burnout Inventory Student Survey (MBI-SS). The MBI-SS included 15 questions with a 7-point rating ranging from 0 (never) to 6 (always). The tool measures three subscales: emotional exhaustion (5 questions), Cynicism (4 questions), and professional efficacy (6 questions). Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) program version 24 was used for data analysis. Binary logistic regression was used to assess the association between burnout and students̓ variables, P value of a level < 0.05 considered statistically significant.ResultsThe prevalence of burnout syndrome among medical students was 38.2%. About 85.6% of students had high emotional exhaustion, 77.8% had high cynicism, and 32.5% exhibited low professional efficacy. Female gender, regular use of legal substances, and family history of mental diseases were associated with significantly high rates of burnout.ConclusionsBurnout is prevalent among medical students of the University of Kerbala with quite high levels of emotional exhaustion and cynicism and lower professional efficacy levels. Faculties of medicine need to consider burnout among their students and works to reduce unnecessary stresses by modifying and upgrading the educational and clinical environments.
Highlights
Burnout is prevalent among medical students of the University of Kerbala with quite high levels of emotional exhaustion and cynicism and lower professional efficacy levels
According to the three-dimensional criterion of burnout, the burnout diagnosis was calculated as a combination of the 3 sub-domains; 162 of the students (38.2%) were experiencing burnout, while 262 (61.80%) students had no burnout
Using binary logistic regression to find the association between socio-demographic variables and burnout syndrome, after adjusting for multiple variables in this analysis, burnout was associated with (P value < 0.05): female gender, regular use of legal substances, and family history of mental diseases
Summary
This study aims to estimate the prevalence of burnout among medical students at the College of Medicine, University of Kerbala, and assess factors associated with it. Burnout currently is a mental condition, that attains growing attention It was firstly introduced by psychologists Herbert Freudenberger and Christina Maslach in the mid-1970s to describe the experience of being physically and emotionally drained as a result of extended stress. Burnout is estimated to impact at least 50% of all medical students during their school, according to US research (included 7 medical schools in the United States) [5, 6]. Stress, burnout, depression, exhaustion, and quality of life, both mental and physical, could all be forms of medical student distress. Maltreatment and improper dealing with medical students may aggravate burnout [6,7,8,9]
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