Is the fire even bigger? Burnout in 800 medical and nursing students in a low middle income country.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Burnout, characterized by emotional exhaustion (EX), depersonalization (DP), and a reduced sense of personal efficacy (PF) among medical and nursing students can lead to suicidal ideation, lack of empathy, and dropouts. Previous studies have used over-simplified definitions of burnout that fail to capture its complexity. We describe the prevalence of burnout profiles and its risk factors among medical and nursing students.

Methods

A cross sectional study was conducted at a tertiary care University Hospital in Pakistan. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) survey was disseminated via SurveyMonkey over a period of 4 months (November 2019 to February 2020) to 482 Medical and 441 nursing students. The MBI tool measures the dimensions of EX, DP, and PF to describe seven

SUBMITTER: Mufarrih SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11361430 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature