Stress and Burnout among medical students in hainan Island, China: A cross-sectional study
The findings reveal concerning levels of stress and academic burnout among medical students in Hainan Province. Significant disparities in burnout were observed across socio-demographic factors, including maternal education level, only-child status, and GPA. Stress and GPA demonstrated significant associations with academic burnout and its subdimensions emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and diminished academic efficacy. Targeted interventions to improve academic achievement among students with lower GPA may effectively alleviate burnout and subdimensions.
Authors
- Zhen Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2112-3742)
- Zeng BinBin
- Diana Cheng
- FU Li-qin
- Zhaoxin Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3226-8974)
- Qingyu Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0561-9315)
- Maorui Yang
- Zaijia Yang
- Ning Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6900-8228)
- Hesheng Hou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5264-7867)
- Houqian Shan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1480-1899)
- Lei Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0101-0695)
- Ling Yuan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0916-4696)
- Shan Hou
Institutions
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
- Hainan Medical University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2025-11-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0335682
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00