Burnout in Premedical Undergraduate Students

Autor/inn/en	Young, Christina; Fang, Daniel; Golshan, Shah; Moutier, Christine; Zisook, Sidney
Titel	Burnout in Premedical Undergraduate Students
Quelle	In: Academic Psychiatry, 36 (2012) 1, S.11-16 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1042-9670
DOI	10.1176/appi.ap.10080125
Schlagwörter	Premedical Students; Physicians; Mental Health; Student Surveys; Questionnaires; Severity (of Disability); Burnout; Undergraduate Students; Correlation; Depression (Psychology); Self Efficacy; Longitudinal Studies; Prevention; Intervention; Females; Hispanic Americans; Student Attitudes; California; Maslach Burnout Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Physician; Doctor; Arzt; Psychohygiene; Schülerbefragung; Fragebogen; Schweregrad; Burn out (Psychology); Burnout-syndrom; Burnout-Syndrom; Korrelation; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Schülerverhalten; Kalifornien
Abstract	Background: There has been growing recognition that medical students, interns, residents and practicing physicians across many specialties are prone to burnout, with recent studies linking high rates of burnout to adverse mental health issues. Little is known about the trajectory and origins of burnout or whether its roots may be traced to earlier in medical training, specifically, during undergraduate studies. Here, the authors surveyed undergraduates at UC San Diego (UCSD) to assess the relationship of burnout to premedical status while controlling for depression severity. Methods: Undergraduate students at UCSD were invited to participate in a web-based survey, consisting of demographic questions; the Maslach Burnout Inventory Student Survey (MBI-SS), which gauged the three dimensions of burnout; and the nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), to assess depression severity. Results: A total of 618 premedical students and 1,441 non-premedical students completed the questionnaire. Premedical students had greater depression severity and emotional exhaustion than non-premedical students, but they also exhibited a greater sense of personal efficacy. The burnout differences were persistent even after adjusting for depression. Also, premedical women and Hispanic students had especially high levels of burnout, although differences between groups became nonsignificant after accounting for depression. Conclusions: Despite the limitations of using a burnout questionnaire not specifically normed for undergraduates, the unique ethnic characteristics of the sample, and the uncertain response rate, the findings highlight the importance of recognizing the unique strains and mental health disturbances that may be more common among premedical students than non-premedical students. Results also underscore the close relationship between depression and burnout, and point the way for subsequent longitudinal, multi-institutional studies that could help identify opportunities for prevention and intervention. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10