• Saeed M Alqahtani, Saurabh Chaturvedi, Asma Ali Hezam, Ahmed Alshahrani, Mohammed Alkhurays, Al MoaleemMohammed MMMDepartment of Prosthetic Dental Science, College of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.Faculty of Dentistry, University of Ibn al-Nafis for Medical Sciences, Sana'a, Yemen., Rahaf Ali Mohammad Alqhtani, Bashayer Mohammed Ali Asiri, and Sarah Ebrahem Ali Zahir.
• Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, College of Dentistry, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2023 Oct 27; 102 (43): e35528e35528.

AbstractOccupational burnout is a chronic psychological problem affecting professionals. The aim of this study was to assess the types and categories of burnout among Saudi Dental board residents at different levels of residency in different provinces of Saudi Arabia, using the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory. Questionnaires were sent to 170 Saudi Dental board residents via Email and WhatsApp. at various training centers in Saudi Arabia, in May 2022. A part of the questionnaire covered the socio-demographic characteristics of the participants such as gender, training level or center, number of working sessions or hours per week and day, dental speciality, and marital status. The second part consisted of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory survey with 21 questions. Only 110 participants returned the answered questions. The overall significant type of burnout was present in 46.3% of the respondents while 53.7%, were for free or minimal burnout. Personal, work-related, and patient-related burnout recorded 62%/38%; 40% to 60%, and 60%:40% for free or minimal to significant burnout. The overall burnout types of values were equal in both gender as well as training levels with no significant differences and P-values ≤ .05. Burnout values were close to each other among the participants in different specialties, except for orthodontics residents which were the least. Analysis of variance, followed by chi-square tests showed a significant difference among participants in different specialties in type and categories of burnout with P-values between .002 to .029. Finally, the burnout value was higher among married participants. Overall burnout types were marginally similar between genders and training levels, while the significant was slightly higher in females, married, highest training level, restorative, and prosthodontic speciality participants.Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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