Burnout and Psychological Safety: A Questionnaire Study of Medical Students.

IF 1.6 Q2 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES
Aziz Bitar, Jens Boman, Emelie Kristoffersson
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Background: Psychological safety-defined as the perception that a group environment is safe for interpersonal risk-taking-could influence the development of burnout among medical students. This study, therefore, sought to investigate the prevalence of burnout, the level of psychological safety, and their association in this population.

Methods: We surveyed undergraduate medical students (n = 944) enrolled in semesters 2 to 10 at a Swedish medical school using a questionnaire containing the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT-12), Amy Edmondson's Team Psychological Safety Survey, and socio-demographic questions. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-tests, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation, and hierarchical regression analysis.

Results: A total of 457 medical students (62.6% women) completed the questionnaire (response rate: 48%). Of the participants, 51.4% scored above the cut-off for burnout risk, and among these, 25.6% were at very high risk. Women scored significantly higher on burnout and lower on psychological safety than men. A significant negative association was found between psychological safety and burnout, with psychological safety accounting for an additional 14.3% of the variance in burnout scores.

Conclusions: Our findings suggest that more than half of the surveyed medical students are at risk for burnout and that lower levels of psychological safety are associated with higher levels of burnout. Furthermore, women appear to be at higher risk for burnout and perceive medical school as less psychologically safe than male students. While longitudinal studies are needed to assess the causality between low psychological safety and burnout, our results provide impetus for developing interventions to prevent burnout and addressing an eventual lack of psychological safety in medical school.

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医学生职业倦怠与心理安全:一项问卷调查。
背景:心理安全是指对群体环境对人际冒险安全的认知,它可以影响医学生倦怠的发展。因此,本研究旨在调查该人群中职业倦怠的患病率、心理安全水平及其相关性。方法:我们使用包含倦怠评估工具(bat12)、Amy Edmondson团队心理安全调查和社会人口学问题的问卷调查了瑞典一所医学院第二至第十学期的本科生(n = 944)。数据分析采用描述性统计、t检验、单因素方差分析、Pearson相关和层次回归分析。结果:共457名医学生完成问卷调查,其中女性62.6%,回复率48%。在参与者中,51.4%的人在倦怠风险方面得分高于临界值,其中25.6%的人处于非常高的风险中。女性在倦怠方面的得分明显高于男性,而在心理安全感方面的得分明显低于男性。心理安全与倦怠之间存在显著的负相关,心理安全对倦怠得分方差的贡献率为14.3%。结论:我们的研究结果表明,超过一半的受访医学生有职业倦怠的风险,低水平的心理安全与高水平的职业倦怠相关。此外,女性似乎有更高的倦怠风险,并且认为医学院比男学生更不安全。虽然需要纵向研究来评估低心理安全性和倦怠之间的因果关系,但我们的研究结果为制定干预措施以预防倦怠和解决医学院最终缺乏心理安全性的问题提供了动力。
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