Burnout and resilience among health science students: Concepts and their relationship
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Academic burnout, Health science students, ResilienceAbstract
Background: Students in health-related fields often face with numerous factors can contribute to increased susceptibility to academic burnout and pressure during their studies.
Objectives: This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the level of burnout and resilience among health science students, as well as evaluating the relationship between students' resilience and their levels of academic burnout.
Methods: A cross-sectional study implemented on 319 students at a central university of Vietnam. The questionnaire included three sections: general characteristics, the Brief Resilience Scale and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the characteristics of the study subjects. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient test was used to examine the relationship between students’ resilience and academic burnout.
Results: The study found that 8.8% of students experienced academic burnout. The mean resilience score of students was 18.13 ± 2.59 out of a total of 27 points. There was a negative and moderate relationship between academic burnout with resilience among health science students (r=-0.318, P<0.001).
Conclusion: Schools and lecturers need to have strategies to train these soft skills to help students increase their resilience. In addition, some intervention studies aimed at helping students achieve coping skills and the ability to regulate emotions adaptively, increasing their resilience and reducing burnout can also be carried out in the future.
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