Abstract
Objectives: The objectives of this study were to investigate the impact of burnout on the academic achievement of female students in the colleges of health sciences and to explore on their educational levels of study regarding burnout.Methods: Purposive sampling technique was used in this study and a sample size of 540 Saudi female students was chosen to participate in this study. The tools used were Maslach Burnout Inventory–General Survey for Students MBI–GS (S) to measure the level of burnout and a socio-demographic questionnaire were administered on participants. The MBI–GS (S) proved internal consistency reliability at 0.86 across many samples.Results: The level of burnout among participants was 51.9%. Some 27.2% of the participants experienced mild burnout, while 14.4% showed moderate levels of burnout. Only 6.5% of participants displayed a high level of burnout, and they were among the Colleges of Pharmacy (25.0%) and Dentistry (10.1%).Conclusions: The study findings showed no association between burnout and academic achievement and no relationship between burnout and the academic level of study. Only the students of the College of Pharmacy suffered from high levels of burnout.
Highlights
Burnout was first addressed in 1974 by Herbert Freudenberger, who conducted several studies, which popularised the term (Heinemann & Heinemann, 2017)
Studies have been conducted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) investigating burnout syndrome, most of them mainly focussing on medical and dental students (Aboalshamat et al, 2017), physicians (Aldrees et al, 2013), nurses (Al-Turki et al, 2010) and physiotherapists (Al-Imam & Al-Sobayel, 2014), while a few researchers have addressed other fields
The researchers of the present study have developed the socio-demographic questionnaire that contained questions requesting personal information, such as age, gender, marital status and educational information that enquiring about specialty, academic level and grade point average (GPA)
Summary
Burnout was first addressed in 1974 by Herbert Freudenberger, who conducted several studies, which popularised the term (Heinemann & Heinemann, 2017). Studies showed that students facing regular burnout symptoms would be incompetent and unwilling to exert effort on their academic duties. This little effort will probably hinder the academic achievement (Richardson et al 2012). Studies have been conducted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) investigating burnout syndrome, most of them mainly focussing on medical and dental students (Aboalshamat et al, 2017), physicians (Aldrees et al, 2013), nurses (Al-Turki et al, 2010) and physiotherapists (Al-Imam & Al-Sobayel, 2014), while a few researchers have addressed other fields. Study conducted by Almalki, et al (2017) indicated that 67% of medical students in the KSA suffer from
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