MK Emmanuel

Psychological Stress and Burnout among Medical Students at the University of the West Indies

DOI:

10.7727/wimj.2014.311

Synopsis:

This study represents one of the first attempts to assess the magnitude of burn-out among medical students on the University of the West Indies campuses. Overall, almost half of students expressed high levels of emotional exhaustion. This percentage increased as the students entered the clinical years, with slightly higher levels seen among the female respondents.

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Objectives: This study aims to determine the prevalence of burnout in medical students across all five years, and to investigate factors that might contribute to and protect from its effects.

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17 Nov, 2014

Accepted:

06 Jan, 2015

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e-Published: 28 Sep, 2015

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A Comparison of the Psychometric Strengths of the Public-domain Zung Self-rating Depression Scale with the Proprietary Beck Depression Inventory-II in Barbados

Issue:

Vol 61, Issue 5 (2012) - Special Issue on Mental Health

Pages:

483–8

Synopsis:

A head-on comparison of two measures of depression: the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale and the Beck Depression Inventory-II, using a cross-section of students at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, indicates that the latter demonstrates superior psychometric properties.

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Objective: To compare the psychometric strengths of two venerable measures of depression, the Zung Self-rating Depression Scale (Zung SDS) and the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) in a Caribbean university student population and to provide researchers and clinicians interested in measures of depression with psychometric evidence that differentiates the two instruments for a Caribbean sample.

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