1Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Amrita School of Dentistry, Amrita Vishwa Vidhyapeetham, Kochi
2Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Manipal College of Dental Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
3Intern, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Amrita School of Dentistry, Amrita Vishwa Vidhyapeetham, Kochii
*Associate Professor, Dr. P Kalyana Chakravarthy, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Manipal College of Dental Sciences Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal-576104, Karnataka-India Ph no: 9916036303, Email: drkalyan81@gmail.com
Online published on 30 August, 2018.
To evaluate the prevalence and associated risk factors of burnout syndrome among dental students in an Indian dental school in Kerala, India.
A cross-sectional questionnaire study was conducted among dental students of Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi, south India.
The questionnaire consisted of demographic information (age, sex, year of study), 8 questions regarding career choice and academic excellence and of 15 questions from the “Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Version” (MBI-SS).
All the analysis was done using PASW version 18 (SPSS Inc, Ill, Chicago, USA) and MedCalc Version 14. A p-value ≤ 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA with post-hoc Conover test were used to compare the mean score of subscales with demographic variables.
A total of 159 students participated out of which 93.1% were females. Most of the students were moderate on Emotional Exhaustion (39.6%) whereas they were high on Cynicism (46.5%) and Professional Efficacy (78.6%). A total of 16.4% and 2.5% of the students reported bi-dimensional and tri-dimensional burnout syndrome respectively.
Burnout syndrome may have an early onset and may also enhance the future onset. Continuous monitoring of the students throughout the curriculum is the need of the hour.
Burnout, dental, students, syndrome
