Burnout syndrome and alcohol consumption in students of Dentistry

• Grant number: 11/19293-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2012
• End date: January 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Dentistry - Social and Preventive Dentistry
• Principal Investigator: Juliana Alvares Duarte Bonini Campos
• Grantee: Diogo Branco Martins
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Odontologia (FOAr). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The aim of this study is to identify the prevalence of burnout, and the risk of alcoholism and compare the mean scores of the different dimensions of the syndrome according to the classification obtained in the risk of Dentistry students at a public University of São Paulo. All students enrolled in 2012 at the Faculty of Dentistry of Araraquara will be invited to participate. As a tool to be used as a socio-demographic questionnaire, the Maslach Burnout Inventory - Student Survey (MBI-SS) and the alcohol use disorders identification test (AUDIT). To characterize the sample will be taken up information regarding age, gender, economic status, housing, performance, and expectations about the course, practice or not of a religion, sport, and date of first contact with alcohol. To evaluate the socio-economic level will be used the scale proposed by the Brazilian Association of Research Companies. The questionnaires will be administered by a single trained examiner. Descriptive statistics will be used. The prevalence of burnout and the classification of alcoholism risk will be estimated by point and interval of 95% of confidence. For comparison, the mean score of each dimension of the MBI-SS according to the different risk categories, will be initially tested with the assumptions of normality, homoscedasticity, and independence of residuals and if accepted we will perform an analysis of variance (ANOVA), otherwise Kruskal Wallis' tests. For decision making is assumed significance level of 5%. (AU)