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Burnout and Its Association With Competence Among Dental Interns in China

Intern physicians are generally more burdened by stress than the general population. This cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the current situation regarding burnout and explore its association with the self-evaluation of competence among Chinese dental interns. A self-administered anonymous sur...

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Autores principales: Liu, Yingjun, Song, Yi, Jiang, Yong, Guo, Chuanbin, Zhou, Yongsheng, Li, Tiejun, Ge, Wenshu, An, Na
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8985595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35401309
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.832606
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author Liu, Yingjun
Song, Yi
Jiang, Yong
Guo, Chuanbin
Zhou, Yongsheng
Li, Tiejun
Ge, Wenshu
An, Na
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Song, Yi
Jiang, Yong
Guo, Chuanbin
Zhou, Yongsheng
Li, Tiejun
Ge, Wenshu
An, Na
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description Intern physicians are generally more burdened by stress than the general population. This cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the current situation regarding burnout and explore its association with the self-evaluation of competence among Chinese dental interns. A self-administered anonymous survey was conducted on 91 dental interns in the Peking University School of Stomatology, from August 2019 to June 2020. It consisted of a psychological stress questionnaire, including burnout and self-evaluation of clinical competence. The Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to determine the differences between self-evaluation scores of clinical competence. Results showed average scores for emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment of 22.22 ± 9.04, 8.16 ± 5.21, and 36.08 ± 7.76, respectively. Dental clinical technology was considered more useful than other clinical competencies, and there was a correlation between its importance and the stress caused by its deficiency (r = −0.201, p = 0.056). Significant associations were found between stress due to a lack of dental clinical technology and high emotional exhaustion (r = 0.273, p < 0.05). Burnout was common among the dental interns, which may be a valuable finding. Among the six different aspects of clinical competence, “dental clinical technology” represented the most stressful item. Strengthening pre-clinical training and promptly conducting targeted training in the early clinical process may be considered as decompression measures.
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spelling pubmed-89855952022-04-07 Burnout and Its Association With Competence Among Dental Interns in China Liu, Yingjun Song, Yi Jiang, Yong Guo, Chuanbin Zhou, Yongsheng Li, Tiejun Ge, Wenshu An, Na Front Psychol Psychology Intern physicians are generally more burdened by stress than the general population. This cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the current situation regarding burnout and explore its association with the self-evaluation of competence among Chinese dental interns. A self-administered anonymous survey was conducted on 91 dental interns in the Peking University School of Stomatology, from August 2019 to June 2020. It consisted of a psychological stress questionnaire, including burnout and self-evaluation of clinical competence. The Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to determine the differences between self-evaluation scores of clinical competence. Results showed average scores for emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment of 22.22 ± 9.04, 8.16 ± 5.21, and 36.08 ± 7.76, respectively. Dental clinical technology was considered more useful than other clinical competencies, and there was a correlation between its importance and the stress caused by its deficiency (r = −0.201, p = 0.056). Significant associations were found between stress due to a lack of dental clinical technology and high emotional exhaustion (r = 0.273, p < 0.05). Burnout was common among the dental interns, which may be a valuable finding. Among the six different aspects of clinical competence, “dental clinical technology” represented the most stressful item. Strengthening pre-clinical training and promptly conducting targeted training in the early clinical process may be considered as decompression measures. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8985595/ /pubmed/35401309 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.832606 Text en Copyright © 2022 Liu, Song, Jiang, Guo, Zhou, Li, Ge and An. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Liu, Yingjun
Song, Yi
Jiang, Yong
Guo, Chuanbin
Zhou, Yongsheng
Li, Tiejun
Ge, Wenshu
An, Na
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title_fullStr Burnout and Its Association With Competence Among Dental Interns in China
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title_short Burnout and Its Association With Competence Among Dental Interns in China
title_sort burnout and its association with competence among dental interns in china
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8985595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35401309
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.832606
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