STRESS AND BURNOUT AMONG UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL FIELD STUDENTS AT PRIVATE MEDICAL COLLEGE, CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY

Abstract

Background: Undergraduate students face stress and burnout during their studies. My aim was to assess them and identify the factors that influence stress and burnout.

Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted at the private medical school in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia was used for this study. A matched sample of 332 undergraduate students was enrolled during the period March-April 2022. The sample size was chosen based on the total number of 2400 undergraduate students at 5%. Confidence interval and 95% confidence level. To identify stress-inducing factors, the chi-square test of independence, independent samples t-test, correlation analysis, and analysis of variance were used. The P-Value <0.05 was regarded as statistically significant.

Result: the main stress factors mentioned by the Medicine Program (55.3% of value p .019), third year (23.0% of value P 0.000) and internship students (31.3% of value P 0.005) They were worried about the future, defective clinical practice of clinical skills, fear of damaging patients and high self -confidence.

Conclusion: The high prevalence of stress and burnout is discouraging. Medicine students have a high prevalence of observed stress, Academic problems, emotional necessity, loss of confidence and fear of performance have been seen as higher stress.