title: Stress and professional burnout among newly graduated dentists.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Dentists encounter numerous professional stressful situations, beginning from education to day-to-day practice. The resulting stress tends to have a negative impact on their personal as well as professional lives.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To measure daily burnout, and to investigate the extent of expectations from dental career and the feeling of being unqualified new dental practitioner.
  
  
  METHODS
  A close-ended questionnaire, i.e., "the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory," was utilized for evaluation. A total of 121 dentists with an experience ranging between 6 months and 5 years were included. The period was considered initiating from graduation to dental practicing in urban or rural areas. Ninety-seven dentists replied with filled questionnaires (80.16%). The multivariant analysis was done using SPSS 11.0 ver. (Chicago, USA).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Using measures analysis, the mean scores for dentists on the basis of age and sex (n= 97) were calculated. The factors most commonly considered responsible for professional burnout were emotional exhaustion (39.27%), frustrations (47.83%), feeling worn out at the end of the day (35.05%), feeling worn out at the end of the working day (46.80%), exhaustion in the morning at the thought of another day at work (35.05%), feeling that every working hour is tiring (46.80%), less energy and less time for family and friends (47.83%). The most common cause for stress was professional burnout that was recorded commonly in females in the age range of 26-28 years.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Dentists are more prone for professional burnout, anxiety, and depression. The main reason for this is the nature of their practice and their personality traits, especially while pursuing dentistry as a carrier. Stress may lead to negative impact on dentists' personal as well as professional lives.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health Dentistry, Paniniya Institute of Dental Science, NTR University, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Suhas
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kulkarni
authors.affiliation: Past Member Ethics Committee for Research, Care Institute of Medical Sciences, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
authors.forename: Namrata
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dagli
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, Darshan Dental College and Hospital, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: Prabu
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Duraiswamy
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, Darshan Dental College and Hospital, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: Harshit
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Desai
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry, Darshan Dental College and Hospital, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: Himanshu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vyas
authors.affiliation: Department of Restorative Dental Sciences, Alfarabi Colleges, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Kusai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Baroudi
keywords: Burnout; practice management; psychology