A Survey of the Relationship between Academic Burnout and Academic Achievement of Dental Students of Guilan University of Medical Sciences

Students’ academic burnout has always been important. Not only it can affect students’ scientific destiny, but also it damages students’ mental health and leads to various failures. Due to important of academic burnout it students’ academic achievement, this study was designed to determine the relationship between academic burnout and academic achievement of Guilan dental students.

In this descriptive – analytical study, the study population consisted of 173 dental students in Guilan University of medical sciences in the academic year 97-98. Sampling has been done through simple random method. Data were collected using Bersu questionnaire, the average of the two semesters and total average of students. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistic indicator (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics tests including one sample t-tests, independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance, correlation coefficients, Pearson’s, and to test the normality of the data Stem and Leaf charts were used  through SPSS.

Findings show that the average score of academic burnout of Dental Students of Guilan University of Medical Sciences was 46/62 ± 8/62. The results also showed that among the components of academic burnout, the highest mean was related to academic inadequacy (19.72 ± 4.27) and the lowest mean was related to inattention (11.2 ± 3.92). Also, the mean score of academic burnout of dental students of Guilan University of Medical Sciences was 46.6 ± 8.62. 83.8% of students had a moderate level of burnout. The results showed that there is a significant negative relationship between academic burnout (r = -0.25, p <0.001), emotional exhaustion (r = -0.28, p <0.001), academic inattention (r = -0.24, p <0.001) with academic achievement. But there was no significant relationship between academic inadequacy and academic achievement (r = 0.06, p = 0.409). The results also showed a significant difference between gender and studentschr('39') academic achievement (t = 3.52, p = 0.001).

Conclusion

The result of this study showed that a significant percentage of student’s experience academic burnout. According to our results, academic burnout, emotional exhaustion, inattention, and academic inefficiency decrease academic achievement. But age had nothing to do with academic achievement. It was also found that burnout increase with age.