The Predictors of Depression and Burnout Among Surgical Residents: A Cross-sectional Study From Kuwait

Ministry of Health, Kuwait

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burnout

Treatments: Other: no intervention, this is a cross sectional questionnaire based study.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04808635

MOHKWMKH21

Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess the prevalence and risk factors for depression and burnout among residents across surgical specialties in Kuwait.

Full description

This is a questionnaire based cross-sectional study conducted in Kuwait from jan 2021- February 2021 An online questionnaire was sent to the residents enrolled to the surgical residency programs in Kuwait. Residency training in Kuwait provides programs in both medical and surgical specialties. Specialties included in our cohort were: general surgery, orthopedic surgery, urology, neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology and otolaryngology.

The email sent to our participants included an invitation letter detailing the reason behind the questionnaire and that it is confidential and anonymous. Consent was obtained from participants.

Variables:

Variables collected included; age, gender, marital status, smoking history, exercise, specialty, year of training, on-call frequency, assessment of burnout and assessment of depression symptoms.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• residents enrolled in surgical training in Kuwait. Across all surgical specialties From R1-R5

Exclusion criteria

Recently accepted candidates that have not yet started residency.

Trial design

80 participants in 4 patient groups

general surgery residents

Treatment:

Other: no intervention, this is a cross sectional questionnaire based study.

orthopedic surgery residents

Treatment:

Other: no intervention, this is a cross sectional questionnaire based study.

urology residents

Treatment:

Other: no intervention, this is a cross sectional questionnaire based study.

OBGYN residents

Treatment:

Other: no intervention, this is a cross sectional questionnaire based study.