Academic burnout among master and doctoral students during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 outbreak has had an immense impact on academic life and public health. Graduate students had experienced obligatory curfews and quarantines due to the COVID-19 outbreak directly impacting their mental health and triggering academic burnout. In this cross-sectional study, we address the...

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Published inScientific reports Vol. 13; no. 1; p. 4745
Main Authors Andrade, Diego, Ribeiro, Icaro J. S., Máté, Orsolya
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group UK 23.03.2023
Nature Publishing Group
Nature Portfolio
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Antidepressants
Burnout
Burnout, Professional - epidemiology
Burnout, Psychological - epidemiology
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Graduate students
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Mental health
multidisciplinary
Outbreaks
Pandemics
Public health
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Students
Students - psychology
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Summary:The COVID-19 outbreak has had an immense impact on academic life and public health. Graduate students had experienced obligatory curfews and quarantines due to the COVID-19 outbreak directly impacting their mental health and triggering academic burnout. In this cross-sectional study, we address the issue of mental health in graduate students by relating it to the factors associated with burnout syndrome during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 519 graduate students from master's and Ph.D./DLA degrees across universities in Hungary and other European countries participated in this study. The Copenhagen burnout inventory student version was used to evaluate burnout syndrome as an outcome. Our findings displayed burnout significantly lower among graduate students who had good sleep quality, receive high levels of support from their university, and were satisfied with how their university dealt with the pandemic. The excessive consumption of alcohol, the use of antidepressants, being single, and thinking about dropping out showed as predictive factors of burnout. The results add to emergent evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and the predicted factors of academic burnout among master and doctoral students.
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ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-023-31852-w