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Academic burnout as an educational complication and promotion barrier among undergraduate students: A cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Academic burnout is a worldwide problem that troubles students at all academic levels. Despite the significant effects of this problem on students’ mental health and academic achievements, yet, it has not been adequately studied in Iranian system of academic education. Therefore, we aime...

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Autores principales: Rahmatpour, Pardis, Chehrzad, Minoomitra, Ghanbari, Atefeh, Sadat-Ebrahimi, Seyyed-Reza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6852272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31807591
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_165_19
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author Rahmatpour, Pardis
Chehrzad, Minoomitra
Ghanbari, Atefeh
Sadat-Ebrahimi, Seyyed-Reza
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Chehrzad, Minoomitra
Ghanbari, Atefeh
Sadat-Ebrahimi, Seyyed-Reza
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description BACKGROUND: Academic burnout is a worldwide problem that troubles students at all academic levels. Despite the significant effects of this problem on students’ mental health and academic achievements, yet, it has not been adequately studied in Iranian system of academic education. Therefore, we aimed to explore the incidence of academic burnout status and its associated factors among the students at Guilan University of Medical Sciences. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted over a number of 303 students at Guilan University of Medical Sciences during 2016. Study samples were selected through the stratified random sampling method, and a set of data including sociodemographic information, educational status, study habits, and burnout inventory status was collected for each sample. Items of burnout inventory status were based on the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics including t-test and linear regression. RESULTS: The students in our study reported a mean of 2.53 ± 0.7 for academic burnout score. Along with related factors of academic burnout, marital status (P = 0.029), grade point average (P = 0.002), being interested in field of study (P = 0.000), and study time (P = 0.000) were significantly associated with academic burnout of students. Furthermore, the incidence of academic burnout did not differ between male and female students. CONCLUSIONS: Regarding the considerable prevalence of academic burnout among students of medical sciences, it is needed that policymakers implement more effective educational programs considering the associated factors of academic burnout.
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spelling pubmed-68522722019-12-05 Academic burnout as an educational complication and promotion barrier among undergraduate students: A cross-sectional study Rahmatpour, Pardis Chehrzad, Minoomitra Ghanbari, Atefeh Sadat-Ebrahimi, Seyyed-Reza J Educ Health Promot Original Article BACKGROUND: Academic burnout is a worldwide problem that troubles students at all academic levels. Despite the significant effects of this problem on students’ mental health and academic achievements, yet, it has not been adequately studied in Iranian system of academic education. Therefore, we aimed to explore the incidence of academic burnout status and its associated factors among the students at Guilan University of Medical Sciences. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted over a number of 303 students at Guilan University of Medical Sciences during 2016. Study samples were selected through the stratified random sampling method, and a set of data including sociodemographic information, educational status, study habits, and burnout inventory status was collected for each sample. Items of burnout inventory status were based on the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics including t-test and linear regression. RESULTS: The students in our study reported a mean of 2.53 ± 0.7 for academic burnout score. Along with related factors of academic burnout, marital status (P = 0.029), grade point average (P = 0.002), being interested in field of study (P = 0.000), and study time (P = 0.000) were significantly associated with academic burnout of students. Furthermore, the incidence of academic burnout did not differ between male and female students. CONCLUSIONS: Regarding the considerable prevalence of academic burnout among students of medical sciences, it is needed that policymakers implement more effective educational programs considering the associated factors of academic burnout. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6852272/ /pubmed/31807591 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_165_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Journal of Education and Health Promotion http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Rahmatpour, Pardis
Chehrzad, Minoomitra
Ghanbari, Atefeh
Sadat-Ebrahimi, Seyyed-Reza
Academic burnout as an educational complication and promotion barrier among undergraduate students: A cross-sectional study
title Academic burnout as an educational complication and promotion barrier among undergraduate students: A cross-sectional study
title_full Academic burnout as an educational complication and promotion barrier among undergraduate students: A cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Academic burnout as an educational complication and promotion barrier among undergraduate students: A cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Academic burnout as an educational complication and promotion barrier among undergraduate students: A cross-sectional study
title_short Academic burnout as an educational complication and promotion barrier among undergraduate students: A cross-sectional study
title_sort academic burnout as an educational complication and promotion barrier among undergraduate students: a cross-sectional study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6852272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31807591
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_165_19
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