Depression, anxiety, and burnout among medical students and residents of a medical school in Nepal: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical students and residents were found to have suffered from depression, anxiety, and burnout in various studies. However, these entities have not been adequately explored in the context of Nepal. We proposed to determine the prevalence of depression, anxiety, burnout, their associated factors, and identify their predictors in a sample of medical students and residents in a Nepalese medical school.

Methods

It was a cross-sectional study with 651 medical students and residents chosen at random between December 2018 and February 2019. The validated Nepali version of Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory, and Medical Students' Stressor Questionnaire were used to assess depression, anxiety, burnout, and stressors respectively. We u

SUBMITTER: Pokhrel NB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7294639 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature