Depressive symptoms, burnout, and declining medical career interest among undergraduate pre-medical students

Grace, Matthew K.

doi:10.5116/ijme.5be5.8131

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“…[39] In terms of student wellness, each aspect of the ORS measure declined going from 2018-2019 to 2019-2020, and although there wasn't a drastic change at McGill in terms of how classes were run, studies have shown that depressive symptoms and burnout are increasing amongst college students. [40] This is also consistent with our ndings of a larger number of upper-year university students using our service as compared to rst-year students. This nding may be preliminary evidence indicating that rates of mental health among university students are indeed decreasing over time.…”

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Program Evaluation of a Student-led Peer Support Service at a Canadian University

Suresh

Karkossa

Richard

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Background: University/college campuses are a rigorous academic environment that also contain numerous financial, social and emotional stressors that often result in the deterioration of students’ mental health. The Peer Support Centre (PSC) is a pilot project that was established to provide peer support to students in these stressful conditions. We wanted to investigate whether peer support is a viable form of support that would benefit university students. The objective of this study is to determine whether the organization was indeed providing a beneficial service to students and if it was fulfilling the needs of the students that visited the service.Methods: After a support session, students (also referred to as supportees) were asked to complete an anonymous questionnaire regarding their self-reported mental wellbeing, their experience with previous professional mental health services, and their experience at the PSC. There weren’t any selection criteria for either the supportees or volunteers as the completion of the questionnaire was completely voluntary. Additionally, volunteers (also referred to as supporters) were asked to complete a similar questionnaire after conducting a support session. With the data collected from 1043 supportees and 797 volunteers from September 2016 – March 2020, a program evaluation was conducted for quality improvement purposes. The responses to the questionnaires were analysed by calculating the means, modes, standard deviations and performing Two-Sample t-tests.Results: The PSC is used by a wide variety of students of different sexes, genders, ethnicities. Students reported having a low ORS score, moderate anxiety as per the GAD-7 and moderate depression according to the PHQ-9. They find it easy to use and rely on it as an alternative form of support when they approach barriers that prevent them from accessing professional services. Lastly, the supporters feel very validated in their role and overall quite prepared and helpful when helping their fellow peers.Conclusions: The established of a service that delivers peer support would be beneficial to the students on a university or college campus as it can serve as a complement to professional services.

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Program Evaluation of a Student-led Peer Support Service at a Canadian University

Suresh

Karkossa

Richard

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“…Also it is in agreement with Santen et al results [ 9 ], where the authors affirm that one-third of all medical student show a moderate or high degree of burnout, being 43% of the third-year class. These higher levels of burnout during the development of the medical degree are associated to lower interest for the medical profession [ 17 ], which may lead to worse medical performance associated to lower levels of empathy among future physicians [ 18 , 19 ] that finally leads to worsen medical performance [ 20 ]. This is one of the reasons why it has been suggested that burnout in physicians is rooted in their formative period [ 21 ].…”

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Burnout syndrome in Spanish medical students

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Background Burnout syndrome is a frequent syndrome related to people that feel a deterioration in their daily activities due to highly demandant psychological requirements in their workplaces. Within last decades, this syndrome has been studied across medical professionals, concluding that stress levels that physicians suffer is high enough to make them develop burnout syndrome. In the case of medical students, there are some recent studies, although with small samples. For this reason, given that this phenomenon may produce a huge impact in medical students’ development, the aim of this study is to analyze the influential factors that may contribute to its occurrence. Methods The necessary information was gathered through a web-based questionnaire, divided in two parts. The first part of the survey included questions related to personal aspects of the students. Burnout related questions (second part) were divided in three subscales to evaluate exhaustion, cynicism, and academic efficacy levels. Results Family support for studying medicine is associated with lower burnout levels in all three scales of the Maslach Burnout Inventory. The number of years spent in the degree show the opposite trend: the more years in the degree, the higher score in all burnout scales. Conclusions Burnout syndrome is a problem among medical students in Spain that increases with the number of years studying medicine. It should be also noticed that family support and vocational studies are independent factors related to lower levels of burnout.

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“…Also it is in agreement with Santen et al results [9], where the authors a rm that one-third of all medical student show a moderate or high degree of burnout, being 43% of the third-year class. These higher levels of burnout during the development of the medical degree are associated to lower interest for the medical profession [19], which may lead to worse medical performance associated to lower levels of empathy among future physicians [20,21] that nally leads to worsen medical performance [22]. This is one of the reasons why it has been suggested that burnout in physicians is rooted in their formative period [23].…”

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confidence: 99%

Burnout Syndrome in Spanish Medical Students

Gil-Calderón

Alonso-Molero

Dierssen-Sotos

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Background: Burnout syndrome is an increasingly frequent pathology that is related to people that suffer a deterioration in their daily activities due to highly demandant psychological requirements in their workplaces. Within last decades, burnout syndrome has been studied across medical professionals, concluding that physicians suffer stress levels high enough to make them develop it. Recently, attention has also been paid to medical students, although with small samples. Given that this phenomenon may produce a huge impact in medical students´ development, the aim of this study is to analyze the influential factors that may contribute to its occurrence. Methods: The necessary information was gathered through a web-based questionnaire, divided in two parts. The first part of the survey included questions related to personal aspects of the students. Burnout related questions (second part) were divided in three subscales to evaluate exhaustion, cynicism, and academic efficacy levels. Results: Family support for studying medicine is associated with lower burnout levels in all three scales of the Maslach Burnout Inventory. The number of years spent in the degree show the opposite trend: the more years in the degree, the higher score in all burnout scales. High percentage of Spanish medical students score high in one or more subscales composing burnout syndrome.Conclusions: Burnout syndrome is a problem among medical students in Spain that increases with the number of years studying medicine. It should be also noticed that family support and vocational studies are independent factors related to lower levels of burnout.

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Depressive symptoms, burnout, and declining medical career interest among undergraduate pre-medical students

Cited by 36 publications

References 21 publications

Program Evaluation of a Student-led Peer Support Service at a Canadian University

Program Evaluation of a Student-led Peer Support Service at a Canadian University

Burnout syndrome in Spanish medical students

Burnout Syndrome in Spanish Medical Students

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