Academic burnout among master and doctoral students during the COVID-19 pandemic

Andrade, Diêgo Micael Barreto; Ribeiro, Ícaro José Santos; Máté, Orsolya

doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31852-w

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“…Despite their awareness of the spread of COVID-19, public health students were willing to take on a relatively high risk of infection to receive face-to-face instructions [6]. Postgraduates experience greater psychological burdens and employment pressures during the COVID-19 pandemic [7].…”

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Plan-Do-Check-Act-theory-based job satisfaction and countermeasures among public health postgraduates

Wang,

Zhu,

Huang

et al. 2024

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Background: Given the current global public health challenges and the potential outbreak of a pandemic in the future, the career choice of postgraduates majoring in public health is of great significance to public health development in society. The existing research mainly focuses on the analysis of the current situation and training mode of postgraduates. This study aimed to analyze the employment status of postgraduates majoring in public health in the Yangtze River Delta region of China using the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle model and propose suggestions for improvement. Methods: Postgraduates majoring in public health from universities in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui were selected as research participants through a questionnaire survey. The survey content included information on socio-demographic characteristics, practice and employment intentions, employment cognition, and satisfaction. A chi-square test was used to analyze differences in the distribution of industry cognition under different baseline characteristics, and a multivariate logistic regression model was used to analyze the factors influencing the distribution of industry cognition. Results: Overall, 290 individuals were included in the analysis (average age: 26.16±2.21 years). Regarding public health industry awareness, 193 individuals (66.6%) were in the low-score group, and 97 (33.4%) were in the high-score group. The results of multi-factorial logistic regression analysis showed that study participants with a higher annual household income had a poorer perception of the public health industry (odds ratio [OR]=0.7, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.503–0.973), graduated in 2021 and later (OR=5.231, 95% CI: 1.906–14.358), and specialized in the five major health professions (OR=2.199, 95% CI: 1.223–3.954). Study participants with lower annual household income had a higher perception of the public health profession. Graduate students in public health have a negative attitude towards the current situation and employment situation in the public health industry and believe that the epidemic has had a negative impact on employment. They face problems such as an insufficient match between internships and employment and increased employment pressure. Conclusions: Based on our findings, we propose strengthening the connection between internship and employment, providing career planning courses and psychological counseling services, and increasing practice and internship opportunities.

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Plan-Do-Check-Act-theory-based job satisfaction and countermeasures among public health postgraduates

Wang,

Zhu,

Huang

et al. 2024

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“…In addition, 90 percent of students claimed that they do not feel they receive enough emotional support from the faculty at their universities. Meanwhile, a study by Andrade et al (2023) shows that being single affected all burnout domains among graduate students across universities in Hungary and other European countries who participated in the survey. They also found high academic burnout levels among those with university dropout intentions, who were dissatisfied with the university dealing with the pandemic and did not feel supported by the university.…”

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A Study of Relationship Between LearneA Study of Relationship Between Learners’ Drive and Burnoutrs’ Drive and Burnout

Mohd Shazali,

Ezrine Yussoff,

Syed Mohd Fuzi

et al. 2023

IJARBSS

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School burnout (or in this study, it refers to tertiary education) reflects a physical and emotional exhaustion faced by a student when he/she is juggling to balance everything (i.e. their studies, extra-curricular activities, etc.). Burnout seems to be related to students' motivation in various dimensions. This study is conducted to determine the relationship between burnout and learners' drive to learn, in terms of affective and expectancy components. The survey is using a cross-sectional way and it is a quantitative study. The data is collected via Google Form, in which it consists of five sections. 255 undergraduate students from the Faculty of Administrative Science and Policy Studies (FSPPP) in UiTM have responded to the questionnaire. It is found that students' motivation is correlated with burnout, even though it is in an odd manner (i.e. extrinsic motivation is more powerful than intrinsic). Therefore, creative teaching and learning environments, plus adaptation of new technology might be useful to ensure that students' motivational level can suppress their burnout.

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“…Ryan et al ( 2023 ) showed that burnout in medical professionals was associated with depression, anxiety, suicidality, and substance abuse. The pandemic times brought changes to academia, such as the increase in burnout (Andrade et al, 2023 ), which were explored in mental health research. A wider acceptance of internet-based therapy was discussed in literature: Svärdman et al ( 2022 ) conducted a meta-analysis showing effectiveness of internet-delivered cognitive behavioral interventions.…”

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Depression, anxiety, and burnout in academia: topic modeling of PubMed abstracts

Lezhnina

2023

Front. Res. Metr. Anal.

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The problem of mental health in academia is increasingly discussed in literature, and to extract meaningful insights from the growing amount of scientific publications, text mining approaches are used. In this study, BERTopic, an advanced method of topic modeling, was applied to abstracts of 2,846 PubMed articles on depression, anxiety, and burnout in academia published in years 1975–2023. BERTopic is a modular technique comprising a text embedding method, a dimensionality reduction procedure, a clustering algorithm, and a weighing scheme for topic representation. A model was selected based on the proportion of outliers, the topic interpretability considerations, topic coherence and topic diversity metrics, and the inevitable subjectivity of the criteria was discussed. The selected model with 27 topics was explored and visualized. The topics evolved differently with time: research papers on students' pandemic-related anxiety and medical residents' burnout peaked in recent years, while publications on psychometric research or internet-related problems are yet to be presented more amply. The study demonstrates the use of BERTopic for analyzing literature on mental health in academia and sheds light on areas in the field to be addressed by further research.

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Academic burnout among master and doctoral students during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 9 publications

References 53 publications

Plan-Do-Check-Act-theory-based job satisfaction and countermeasures among public health postgraduates

Plan-Do-Check-Act-theory-based job satisfaction and countermeasures among public health postgraduates

A Study of Relationship Between LearneA Study of Relationship Between Learners’ Drive and Burnoutrs’ Drive and Burnout

Depression, anxiety, and burnout in academia: topic modeling of PubMed abstracts

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