Ghafoor S, Chaudhry S, Khan J S.
Burnout In Post Graduate Students Enrolled In Basic Dental Sciences.
Biomedica Jan ;34(1):38-43.

Background and Objectives: Burnout has been documented among undergraduate dental students and also dental practitioners, however, the evidence on post graduate students is less and none is reported regarding the Pakistani post graduate dental students. The present study was designed to assess this issue in postgraduate dental students UHS Lahore. Methods: All the post graduate students enrolled in non-clinical dental sciences such as Oral Pathology, Oral Biology, Dental Materials and Immunology at the University of Health Sciences (n=30) completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). Burnout was measured using the scales of ?emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP) and personal accomplishment (PA). Means and standard deviation was computed for all the responses on the questionnaire. Means of subscale of MBI were taken and stratified according to gender and marital status. Mann-Whitney-U test was used to analyze association of individual burnout items with marital status and gender. In all analysis p-value of <0.05 was taken as statistically significant. Results: The post graduate students scored high for EE and PA domain while had exhibit less than threshold scores for DP. Males scored for EE and PA domains but less for DP domain as compared to female students. Single students scored high for EE and PA domains as compared to the married students. The highest ranked item was found to be ?I feel used up at end of the work day? while the lowest rank was ?I really do not care what happens to some recipients?. Conclusion: Burnout scores were exhibited for emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment domains among post graduate students but could not be reported for the depersonalization domain. Gender and marital status can be an influencer regarding an individual?s state of burnout.

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