Burnout, StudentNCT05483335
Assessing Burnout in Medical Students in Clerkship Years in United Arab Emirates
An observational study of Burnout, Student and Burnout, Professional, run by United Arab Emirates University at 1 site in United Arab Emirates.
Trial summary
Burnout Syndrome is a medical condition caused by long-term job-related strain and is defined by presence of either one or more of the three states i.e. emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal accomplishment. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 40 years
- Conditions the study is for
- Burnout, Student, Burnout, Professional, Educational Problems
- How many people
- 132 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited Arab Emirates
- Study dates
- 28 Sep 2022to Jun 2024
- Phase
- Observational
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 to 40 years
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult
Study population: Medical student of the 5th and 6th year (clinical/clerkship years) of the 6-year MD programme We plan to include at least 132 medical students based on sample size calculation with total population of 200 clerkship students with 95% confidence level and 5% margin of error.
Who may be able to join
- Medical students (5th and 6th year) of college of medicine and health sciences in United Arab Emirates University
- Currently attending the college, not on sick leave or long-term absence.
- Agreed to participate after Informed consent
Who cannot join
- Self-reported presence of active mental health illness or current treatment.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
United Arab Emirates1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences
Al Ain City, Abu Dhabi Emirate, 15551
Adnan Agha, +971-3-7673333 ext. 7677, adnanagha@uaeu.ac.ae
About this study
Official title: Assessing the Frequency of Burnout Syndrome Among Medical Students in United Arab Emirates University and Identifying Any Associated Factors
Burnout Syndrome is a medical condition caused by long-term job-related strain and is defined by presence of either one or more of the three states i.e. emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal accomplishment. Burnout has been shown to cause decreased work output and mental well being of employees and increase errors at workplace. Burnout is observed in various lines of work and but has been found to be especially high among academic students undertaking professional studies as well as healthcare professionals. Medical students in their clerkship years undergo high stake exams, while adapting from classroom and simulation learning to participate in clinical care of patients in hospital care setting with no prior experience, which much them vulnerable to developing burnout during medical school. Burnout can effect medical students' well-being, which may continue into their internship and residency so greater emphasis in required on creating an awareness of burnout and identifying any factors associated to its development.
Read the detailed description
Burnout syndrome can develop after a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal workplace stressors, and is defined by 3 dimensions - emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal accomplishment. Burnout syndrome can be prevalent in up to half the medical students and those studies have suggested poor mental health among them. Various external and internal factors may contribute to burnout in medical students and little is known about the impact and mechanism of these factors in developing burnout. Burnout can develop, persist or worsen in residency years and it has been found to frequent among Diabetes specialty residents in United Kingdom as well in Emirati medical residents. Burnout can affect overall wellbeing of medical students with health consequences as well as poor work engagement/ educational outcomes.
To the best of authors knowledge no data exists on burnout in undergraduate medical students in clinical years (clerkship) in United Arab Emirates
- Being tested
- No intervention but assessing for burnout syndrome in all group
- Keywords
- Medical Student, Clerkship, Burnout syndrome, Medical Education, Untied Arab Emirates
- Medical subject headings
- Burnout, Psychological, Burnout, Professional
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
No intervention but assessing for burnout syndrome in all groupOther
Using Maslach Burnout inventory to assess the presence of burnout and a self reporting questionnaire to identify possible stressors or associations
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Student in the final two clinical years (Clerkship years) | All the current medical students of College of Medicine and Health Sciences in United Arab Emirates University in the clinical years (fifth and sixth years in a 6-year MD programme) also called as clerkship years, will be invited into this study to assess for burnout syndrome using a validated tool via Mind GardenTM using Malasch Inventory for Burnout Syndrome and also to identify any other factors which may be contributing to stress/burnout. Receives: Other: No intervention but assessing for burnout syndrome in all group |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Assess the frequency of burnout syndrome in clerkship medical students (5th and 6th year of MD program) collected over 3 months period.
The purpose of this study is to estimate the frequency of burnout syndrome in medical students in the clinical years (fifth and sixth years in a 6-year MD programme) in College of Medicine and Health Sciences in United Arab Emirates University via validated tool from Mind Garden, Malasch Inventory for Burnout Syndrome, assessing all three subscales of burnout i.e Emotional Exhaustion (with cutoff score for high burnout >26; range 0-54 with higher scores meaning a worse outcome), Depersonalization (with cutoff score for high burnout >12; range 0-30 with higher scores meaning a worse outcome), and lack of personal accomplishment (with cutoff score for high burnout < 32; range 0-48 with higher scores meaning a better outcome)
Measured: cross-sectional with data collected over 3 months
Assess factors associated with presence of burnout syndrome in clerkship medical students (5th and 6th year of MD program) collected over 3 months period.
To identify factors associated with presence of burnout in medical students in the clinical years (fifth and sixth years in a 6-year MD programme) in College of Medicine and Health Sciences in United Arab Emirates University
Measured: cross-sectional with data collected over 3 months
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted2 Aug 2022
- Study start28 Sep 2022
- Primary completionApr 2024 (estimated)
- Study completionJun 2024 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (3)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Burnout, StudentStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Observational
- Observational model
- Other
- Time perspective
- Cross-sectional
- Enrolment
- 132 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- United Arab Emirates University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Dr Adnan Agha, United Arab Emirates University
- Investigators
- Adnan Agha, Principal investigator, United Arab Emirates University, College of Medicine & Health Sciences
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05483335
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- UAEU_CMHS_IM_ERSC_2022_846
- Status last verified
- Jan 2024
- First submitted
- 28 Jul 2022
- Last updated
- 11 Jan 2024
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Undecided: Plan to share data with similar population for analysis in future
Publications
Dyrbye LN, Thomas MR, Huntington JL, Lawson KL, Novotny PJ, Sloan JA, Shanafelt TD. Personal life events and medical student burnout: a multicenter study. Acad Med. 2006 Apr;81(4):374-84. doi: 10.1097/00001888-200604000-00010.
PubMed 16565189Ishak W, Nikravesh R, Lederer S, Perry R, Ogunyemi D, Bernstein C. Burnout in medical students: a systematic review. Clin Teach. 2013 Aug;10(4):242-5. doi: 10.1111/tct.12014.
PubMed 23834570Agha A, Basu A, Hanif W. Burnout in diabetes and endocrinology specialist registrars across England, Scotland and Wales in the pre-COVID era. Prim Care Diabetes. 2022 Aug;16(4):515-518. doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2022.05.005. Epub 2022 Jun 3.
PubMed 35667990
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 11 Jan 2024. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Assessing the Frequency of Burnout Syndrome Among Medical Students in United Arab Emirates University and Identifying Any Associated Factors
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT05483335
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- UAEU_CMHS_IM_ERSC_2022_846
- Keywords
- Medical Student, Clerkship, Burnout syndrome, Medical Education, Untied Arab Emirates
- Study type
- Observational
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 132 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- United Arab Emirates UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 28 Sep 2022 (actual)
- Primary completion
- Apr 2024 (estimated)
- Study completion
- Jun 2024 (estimated)
- First posted
- 2 Aug 2022 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Burnout Syndrome is a medical condition caused by long-term job-related strain and is defined by presence of either one or more of the three states i.e. emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal accomplishment. Burnout has been shown to cause decreased work output and mental well being of employees and increase errors at workplace. Burnout is observed in various lines of work and but has been found to be especially high among academic students undertaking professional studies as well as healthcare professionals. Medical students in their clerkship years undergo high stake exams, while adapting from classroom and simulation learning to participate in clinical care of patients in hospital care setting with no prior experience, which much them vulnerable to developing burnout during medical school. Burnout can effect medical students' well-being, which may continue into their internship and residency so greater emphasis in required on creating an awareness of burnout and identifying any factors associated to its development.
Detailed description
Burnout syndrome can develop after a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal workplace stressors, and is defined by 3 dimensions - emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal accomplishment. Burnout syndrome can be prevalent in up to half the medical students and those studies have suggested poor mental health among them. Various external and internal factors may contribute to burnout in medical students and little is known about the impact and mechanism of these factors in developing burnout. Burnout can develop, persist or worsen in residency years and it has been found to frequent among Diabetes specialty residents in United Kingdom as well in Emirati medical residents. Burnout can affect overall wellbeing of medical students with health consequences as well as poor work engagement/ educational outcomes.
To the best of authors knowledge no data exists on burnout in undergraduate medical students in clinical years (clerkship) in United Arab Emirates
Study design
- Observational model
- Other
- Time perspective
- Cross-sectional
- Number of arms
- 1
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Student in the final two clinical years (Clerkship years) | – | Other: No intervention but assessing for burnout syndrome in all groupAll the current medical students of College of Medicine and Health Sciences in United Arab Emirates University in the clinical years (fifth and sixth years in a 6-year MD programme) also called as clerkship years, will be invited into this study to assess for burnout syndrome using a validated tool via Mind GardenTM using Malasch Inventory for Burnout Syndrome and also to identify any other factors which may be contributing to stress/burnout. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 to 40 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult
- Study population
- Medical student of the 5th and 6th year (clinical/clerkship years) of the 6-year MD programme We plan to include at least 132 medical students based on sample size calculation with total population of 200 clerkship students with 95% confidence level and 5% margin of error.
Key inclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Medical students (5th and 6th year) of college of medicine and health sciences in United Arab Emirates University
- Currently attending the college, not on sick leave or long-term absence.
- Agreed to participate after Informed consent
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Self-reported presence of active mental health illness or current treatment.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| No intervention but assessing for burnout syndrome in all groupUsing Maslach Burnout inventory to assess the presence of burnout and a self reporting questionnaire to identify possible stressors or associations | Other | Medical Student in the final two clinical years (Clerkship years) |
Primary outcome
Assess the frequency of burnout syndrome in clerkship medical students (5th and 6th year of MD program) collected over 3 months period.
Time frame: cross-sectional with data collected over 3 months
The purpose of this study is to estimate the frequency of burnout syndrome in medical students in the clinical years (fifth and sixth years in a 6-year MD programme) in College of Medicine and Health Sciences in United Arab Emirates University via validated tool from Mind Garden, Malasch Inventory for Burnout Syndrome, assessing all three subscales of burnout i.e Emotional Exhaustion (with cutoff score for high burnout >26; range 0-54 with higher scores meaning a worse outcome), Depersonalization (with cutoff score for high burnout >12; range 0-30 with higher scores meaning a worse outcome), and lack of personal accomplishment (with cutoff score for high burnout < 32; range 0-48 with higher scores meaning a better outcome)
Assess factors associated with presence of burnout syndrome in clerkship medical students (5th and 6th year of MD program) collected over 3 months period.
Time frame: cross-sectional with data collected over 3 months
To identify factors associated with presence of burnout in medical students in the clinical years (fifth and sixth years in a 6-year MD programme) in College of Medicine and Health Sciences in United Arab Emirates University
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 11 Jan 2024.
- Background: PubMed 16565189Dyrbye LN, Thomas MR, Huntington JL, Lawson KL, Novotny PJ, Sloan JA, Shanafelt TD. Personal life events and medical student burnout: a multicenter study. Acad Med. 2006 Apr;81(4):374-84. doi: 10.1097/00001888-200604000-00010.
- Background: PubMed 23834570Ishak W, Nikravesh R, Lederer S, Perry R, Ogunyemi D, Bernstein C. Burnout in medical students: a systematic review. Clin Teach. 2013 Aug;10(4):242-5. doi: 10.1111/tct.12014.
- Background: PubMed 35667990Agha A, Basu A, Hanif W. Burnout in diabetes and endocrinology specialist registrars across England, Scotland and Wales in the pre-COVID era. Prim Care Diabetes. 2022 Aug;16(4):515-518. doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2022.05.005. Epub 2022 Jun 3.
- The gold standard for burnout assessment. Maslach Burnout Inventory 4th EditionLink provided by the sponsor.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Undecided. Plan to share data with similar population for analysis in future
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Adnan Agha principal investigator
United Arab Emirates University, College of Medicine & Health Sciences
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
An observational study of Burnout, Student and Burnout, Professional, run by United Arab Emirates University at 1 site in United Arab Emirates.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 11 Jan 2024. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United Arab Emirates. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
Results are not available in the source record.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
Contact Adnan Agha (+971-3-7673333 ext. 7677, adnanagha@uaeu.ac.ae), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Assess the frequency of burnout syndrome in clerkship medical students (5th and 6th year of MD program) collected over 3 months period. (time frame: cross-sectional with data collected over 3 months). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT05483335, which also lists 3 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 11 Jan 2024.