Volume 26, Issue 125, July 2022

Prevalence and degree of burnout among medical students in Jeddah University using Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)

Mohammed Qashqary¹, Abdulrahman Alqahtani², Ahmed Alotaibi^2♦, Ziyad Alghamdi², Hashim Alattas²

¹Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
²Faculty of Medicine, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Faculty of Medicine, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Burnout is broadly used term that is spread more recently than before. Medical student burnout can cause serious distress on the student that could cause severe consequences. There has been increased attention to burnout and many studies has been conduct ed to estimate the prevalence and the effect of burnout. This study aims to use the Maslach Burnout Syndrome (MBI) to estimate t he prevalence and extent of burnout in medical students at the University of Jeddah in 2021. A cross section study was used. The s tudy included 271 medical students in university of Jeddah who completed the second year (first in the college) until the end of internship of 2021 batch. The total of participants in the study is 271 and they completed a self administered questionnaire. 2 7% of participants are females and 73% are males. According to the method of the assessment, the prevalence of burnout is 20%. The three areas of burnout i.e., Burnout, depersonalization, and personal achievements has been found to be in mild to high rate category with (20%) of medical students having burnout.

Keywords: Burnout, medical students, Maslach Burnout Inventory

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms319e2290

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i125/ms319e2290

Published: 29 July 2022